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South Africas ruling ANC kickstarts its election campaign Saturday for polls on May 29, facing its worst result ever amid high unemployment and a sluggish economy.

It is the centenary of the birth of Allan MacLeod Cormack, co-winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing CT scanning.

South Africas ruling ANC launched its election campaign on Saturday, hoping to overcome anger over high unemployment and a sluggish economy and to protect its three-decade-old majority.

It is always gratifying to witness performers staging highly technical artforms, like ballet, and giving them fresh, local twists. THE GOLD RHINO OF MAPUNGUBWE BALLET is such an example. The show tells the story of Van Graan, a white man in the 1930s who embarks on a journey to discover the treasures of the ancient civilisation of Mapangubwe.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's genocide case against Israel may have ruffled feathers in the capitals of vital Western trading partners, but it has boosted the country's standing as a champion of the downtrodden Global South. That gamble is likely to pay off, thanks to renewed rivalry for Africa's minerals and U.N. votes between the West, China and Russia, turbocharged by Russia's war on Ukraine. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected Israel's petition...

Israeli soldiers are routinely invited to speak to students at Herzlia High School, of whom more than 20 percent head to Israel after they wrap up their studies

South Africa criticizes world order that it sees as serving the interests of US and its rich-country allies

South Africas genocide case is a diplomatic win, after damning verdict

South Africa's genocide case against Israel may have ruffled feathers in the capitals of vital Western trading partners, but it has boosted the country's standing as a champion of the downtrodden Global South. That gamble is likely to pay off, thanks to renewed rivalry for Africa's minerals and UN votes between the West, China and Russia, turbocharged by Russia's war on Ukraine.

Retracing the footsteps of history and foraging museums in the land of cows, diamonds and wandering elephants.