US president’s executive order provides resettlement for Afrikaners ‘who are victims of unjust racial discrimination’. United States President Donald Trump’s offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as right-wing white lobby groups want to “tackle the injustices” of Black majority rule on home soil. … Read more
Last month, South Africa adopted a bill for the state to expropriate land to address racial disparities in land ownership after apartheid. South Africa has refuted that it is “confiscating” land unfairly, an accusation that United States President Donald Trump made, adding he plans to cut all funding for the country. Trump on Sunday accused … Read more
Musina, South Africa – Every day, Fadzai Musindo walks across the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa – sometimes via the official border post but usually by taking the more dangerous informal route. Streams of men, women and children regularly cross the bridge separating the two countries, but for the 43-year-old mother of three, it … Read more
Boxing Day, the traditionally British holiday recognized the day after Christmas, offers an extension of the festivities. People in countries like Canada, the U.K. and South Africa spend an extra day with friends, shopping or watching sports. Andrew McLean and his wife moved to the U.S. from Manchester almost 25 years ago. They brought the … Read more
On Monday, March 21, 1960, Robert Sobukwe, the 35-year-old leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), woke at 5am. His wife, Veronica, heated a kettle of water on the stove, and he washed in a tub in the kitchen of their one-bedroom house in Soweto, the largest Black township in Johannesburg. After getting dressed, he … Read more