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South African politics

  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Trump and the tortured history of South Africa’s land

    Land ownership remains country’s toughest policy problem as it grapples with the legacy of apartheid

    An aerial view of the poor black squatter camp Kya Sands, home to South Africans and many African immigrants on July 19, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa moves to change empowerment law for Musk’s Starlink

    Potential loosening of Black ownership rules came after billionaire said his satellite internet group would not comply

    The logo of the Starlink satellite-internet communication system
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    South Africa’s mugging at the White House

    Violence against Afrikaner farmers needs to stop, but it is not a genocide

    South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Trump attacks South Africa’s Ramaphosa over alleged targeting of white farmers

    US president brandishes printed media reports of what he claims are murdered farmers in Oval Office exchange

    US President Donald Trump (R) holds up news articles related to violence in South Africa during a meeting with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    South Africa turns to golf diplomacy to woo Trump

    Ernie Els set to join Cyril Ramaphosa for White House meeting after breakdown in relations between Pretoria and Washington

    Ramaphosa; Trump and Els in 2017
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    South Africa
    Mass starvation of chickens at state-backed South African farm sparks uproar

    Parliament to summon government-run pension fund manager after starving birds resorted to cannibalism

    Dead chickens inside a large poultry farm site in South Africa
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    South Africa scraps VAT increase in dramatic U-turn after coalition rift

    Finance minister forced into climbdown on tax rise after bitter fight with governing partner

    South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    Trump’s championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa

    US president and his adviser Elon Musk seize on discredited claims to launch economic assault against African nation

    Afrikaner families climb a hill in Orania, South Africa
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa’s coalition in peril after ANC passes budget without partner

    Business-friendly Democratic Alliance votes against the framework following weeks of infighting

    Enoch Godongwana delivers his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    South Africa’s ANC calls Trump Afrikaner refugee plan ‘madness’

    Main party in governing coalition dismisses US accusations of white minority oppression

    White South Africans hold signs saying Mr Donald Trump Thank You Very Much
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    South Africa
    South African coalition fights over US ambassador pick

    Parties at odds over who should succeed envoy thrown out by Donald Trump following spat between two countries

    Ebrahim Rasool speaks to the media upon his arrival in Cape Town
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Special ReportFuture of Water
    Mismanagement turns up pressure on South Africa’s water system

    Reservoirs may be full but poor maintenance, lack of investment and criminality are disrupting supplies

    A person collects water from an outdoor tap, filling a yellow bucket while a blue bucket sits below
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    South Africa’s government locked in budget stand-off

    Coalition leaders are at loggerheads over fiscal hole partly created by Donald Trump

    Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    South Africa’s budget postponed for first time after cabinet rift

    Officials say pro-business Democratic Alliance and senior figures in African National Congress objected to VAT rise

    Enoch Godongwana exits a building after a press conference
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    David Pilling
    South Africa has been blindsided by Donald Trump

    The US president’s attacks on the country might actually unite its people

    Cyril Ramaphosa, seen through ranks of uniformed soldiers, arrives at City Hall for the State of the Nation Address in Cape Town
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Marco Rubio shuns G20 meeting in South Africa over ‘equality’ drive

    Top US diplomat echoes Donald Trump and Elon Musk in condemning promotion of ‘solidarity’ and ‘sustainability’

    US secretary of state Marco Rubio
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    South Africa
    Trump pledges to stop US assistance to South Africa over land law

    Rand falls after US president singles out Brics nation over expropriation of properties

    Cyril Ramaphosa addresses supporters at a podium during a rally in Johannesburg
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    South African politician Helen Zille: ‘The ANC has to come apart’

    The Democratic Alliance chair on governing in coalition, battling corruption under Jacob Zuma — and the trouble with ‘everything must fall’

    A cheerful older woman with blonde hair and glasses is wearing a sun hat. She is sitting in an informal restaurant, squeezing lemon onto shellfish
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Malema slams ‘back-stabbing’ Zuma as South African left reshapes

    Former president will dump defectors to his upstart party, says Economic Freedom Fighters leader

    A montage of Julius Malema, left, and Jacob Zuma
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    South Africa
    McKinsey’s $122mn bribery settlement in South Africa sparks outrage

    Politicians and campaigners say penalty is insufficient as country struggles with corruption

    Former South African President Jacob Zuma at a press conference in October 2022
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    South Africa’s first Black central bank governor dies aged 65

    Tito Mboweni served as labour minister in Nelson Mandela’s first cabinet

    South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Pravin Gordhan
    Pravin Gordhan dies after life fighting apartheid and corruption

    South African activist campaigned against failings of Jacob Zuma’s administration

    Pravin Gordhan is seen sitting and wearing a suit and tie at a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture.
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    The South African bus chief taking a stand against ‘mafia’ demands

    Transport executive takes to courts to force action against organised crime’s hold on country’s economy

    An Intercape bus that had broken through a road barrier to slip down an embankment after being shot at on its way to Cape Town, South Africa in August 2022
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    South African economy
    South Africa signals more support for energy groups after Total exits gas project

    Energy minister says government could have done more to make offshore discovery commercially viable

    South Africa’s energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Defections leave South Africa’s radical EFF party at risk of ‘imploding’

    Months of internal tensions come to a head with exit of powerful deputy leader to left-wing rival

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