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  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
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  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
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  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
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    Finance minister forced into climbdown on tax rise after bitter fight with governing partner

    South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
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  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
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    Afrikaner families climb a hill in Orania, South Africa
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
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    Secretary of state Marco Rubio expels Ebrahim Rasool after he criticised Donald Trump in an online lecture

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  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
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    Desalter tanks and pipework at the Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos, Nigeria
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
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    African modernists have been unjustly overlooked — until now

    A presentation of mostly 20th-century Nigerian pioneers at Tefaf in Maastricht rides a wave of global recognition

    Vibrant painted faces emerging from colourful columns and orbs in red, blue and green
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
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    Coalition leaders are at loggerheads over fiscal hole partly created by Donald Trump

    Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
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    Governments are discussing how to boost investment in Europe’s arms industry

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