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South Africa’s troubled state-owned power utility Eskom has appointed an interim chief executive after a fallout with its outgoing head over a media interview he gave alleging ongoing corruption at the company linked to the ruling party.

The African National Congress, South Africa’s ruling party, endorsed President Cyril Ramaphosa as its leader even though he faces growing anger from voters.

The president of South Africa is fighting for his political future in a dramatic reversal of fortunes for an anti-apartheid icon once admired for tackling the problems of Africa’s most developed economy.

South Africa’s president might lose his job as he faces possible impeachment over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars stashed inside a couch on his farm.

The coronation of King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is a watershed moment in South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit next month will be the first of King Charles' reign.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied allegations of money laundering while being questioned by lawmakers over a scandal that threatens his position and the direction of Africa’s most developed economy.

Beleaguered former South African President Jacob Zuma has said he is ready to make a surprise return to politics by standing for a top position when the ruling African National Congress holds a conference in December.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has an urgent meeting scheduled with his Cabinet to discuss an electricity crisis which has led to unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts.

The United Arab Emirates has called on its courts to begin enforcing the judgements of British courts, in a move that could affect the city of Dubai’s status as a haven for the world’s wealthy.

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa faced a grilling by lawmakers in Parliament as they demanded answers from him on his handling of the theft of millions of dollars from his farm.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party begins its key policy conference on Friday beset by internal divisions and the country’s economic woes.

South Africa has been crippled by rolling blackouts since 2008 because its state-run, dilapidated power plants couldn’t keep pace with demand. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the country’s near-monopoly electricity supplier, has been central to the meltdown, with a legacy of poor management and financial losses leading to a series of bailouts. Outages have hit record levels in 2022, and the government is turning to private power producers to help resolve the crisis.

South Africa has been crippled by rolling blackouts since 2008 because its state-run, dilapidated power plants couldn’t keep pace with demand. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the country’s near-monopoly electricity supplier, has been central to the meltdown, with a legacy of poor management and financial losses leading to a series of bailouts. Outages have hit record levels in 2022, and the government is turning to private power producers to help resolve the crisis.

South Africa has been crippled by rolling blackouts since 2008 because its state-run, dilapidated power plants couldn’t keep pace with demand. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the country’s near-monopoly electricity supplier, has been central to the meltdown, with a legacy of poor management and financial losses leading to a series of bailouts. Outages have hit record levels in 2022, and the government is turning to private power producers to help resolve the crisis.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the long-serving deputy secretary-general of his ruling African National Congress party Jessie Duarte, who died Sunday after a long battle with cancer.

Tens of thousands of South Africans head for the Durban July after a two-year break for Covid.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the final chapter of a report on an extensive judicial investigation into corruption

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the final chapter of a report on an extensive judicial investigation into corruption.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency that was hidden inside furniture at his game farm

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency that was hidden inside furniture at his game farm.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was confronted in Parliament Thursday by opposition politicians who pressed him to step down from office pending a criminal investigation into allegations that he covered up a theft from his rural game farm

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was confronted in Parliament Thursday by opposition politicians who pressed him to step down from office pending a criminal investigation into allegations that he covered up a theft from his rural game farm.

The three Gupta brothers have come to embody the corruption that blighted South African President Jacob Zuma’s almost nine-year rule. They allegedly used their friendship with the president and business ties to his son, Duduzane, to influence cabinet appointments and secure illicit state contracts worth billions of dollars. They fled South Africa for Dubai in early 2018 after the ruling party forced Zuma to quit and were charged with graft later that year. In June 2022, two of the Gupta brothers

Dubai police say they have arrested two brothers from the Gupta family wanted in connection with a corruption case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma, the latest high-profile extradition case involving the United Arab Emirates

Dubai police say they have arrested two brothers from the Gupta family wanted in connection with a corruption case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma, the latest high-profile extradition case involving the United Arab Emirates.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces daunting political challenges including being defied within his party over his anti-corruption drive and derided as ineffective by the opposition

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces daunting political challenges including being defied within his party over his anti-corruption drive and derided as ineffective by the opposition.

The corruption trial in South Africa of former President Jacob Zuma has been postponed again pending the outcome of the ex-leader’s appeal to get the state prosecutor removed from his case

The corruption trial in South Africa of former President Jacob Zuma has been postponed again pending the outcome of the ex-leader’s appeal to get the state prosecutor removed from his case.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Raymond Zondo as the country’s new chief justice.

Another damning report into government corruption in South Africa has recommended further investigations and the possible prosecution of former President Jacob Zuma for allegedly receiving bribes to influence the awarding of state contracts.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed his government will effectively tackle the country’s pressing problems of corruption, nationwide power cuts, high unemployment and the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second part of a judicial report on corruption in South Africa has been handed over to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is continuing with legal proceedings to remove the prosecutor in his corruption case.

A man accused of setting a fire that destroyed parts of South Africa's historic Parliament complex is facing an additional charge of terrorism.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ruling party, the African National Congress, must work to regain popular support after being embroiled in corruption scandals and divided by bitter factional rivalries.

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, is to celebrate its 110th anniversary this weekend amid deep divisions, graft allegations and broad challenges that saw it perform dismally in local government elections last year.

Experts in South Africa say President Cyril Ramaphosa is challenged to take decisive action against the corruption documented in a judicial report presented to the leader and made public.

African leaders are paying tribute to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his fearless campaign that helped end South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime.

A South African court has ordered that former President Jacob Zuma should go back to prison after withdrawing the medical parole given to him earlier this year.

South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for fiction on Nov. 3 for his novel “The Promise,” the story of a white South African family in decline in the years before and after the end of the racist apartheid system.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has received less than 50% of votes in nationwide elections for the first time.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s effort to get a prosecutor removed from his corruption case has been dismissed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma claims he was sent to prison in July because the country’s justice system is unfair.

A report into dealings by senior officials at South Africa’s health ministry during the coronavirus pandemic has revealed corruption, fraud and the misappropriation of millions of dollars meant to aid the fight against COVID-19.

The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been postponed until Oct. 26.

South Africa’s highest court has denied an application by former president Jacob Zuma to rescind his sentence of 15 months in jail for contempt of court.

After uncertainty over whether COVID-19 would force South Africa to postpone local government elections, the courts have ruled that the crucial polls should move ahead.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday said he tried to combat corruption he saw as the country’s deputy president during former President Jacob Zuma’s controversial time in power.

South Africa's imprisoned former President Jacob Zuma has been admitted to a hospital for observation near the Estcourt Correctional Center where he is currently serving a 15-month sentence.

Supporters of South Africa’s leftist opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, have demonstrated against the killings of 36 people in Phoenix, a suburb of Durban, during the recent violent riots in KwaZulu-Natal province.

The South African economy's buoyant start to the year is likely to be ruined by a combination of renewed Covid-19 containment measures and recent civil unrest, experts have warned.

Following the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, and at a time when inequality is worse than during apartheid, mob violence is threatening the country’s constitutional order.

South Africa’s president says the government has lifted a ban on liquor sales and relaxed other pandemic restrictions.

South Africa’s acting health minister says the country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign is regaining momentum after being disrupted by a week of riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma was allowed to leave prison briefly Thursday to attend his brother’s funeral.

The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 while it is decided whether he must be physically present in the courtroom or can appear via video from where he is in detention.

South Africa has been rocked by the worst violence since the nation achieved democracy in 1994.

The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma resumed Monday, more than a week after his imprisonment for contempt of court in a separate case set off rioting in parts of the country.

People were urged to honour the anti-apartheid hero's legacy by rebuilding after riots left 212 dead.

South Africa's leader has gone to Johannesburg’s Soweto township to view badly damaged shopping centers where people were trampled to death in rioting sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.

South Africa's leader went to Johannesburg's Soweto township Sunday to view badly damaged shopping centers where people were trampled to death in rioting sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. President Cyril Ramaphosa toured the Ndofaya Mall in the Meadowlands part of Soweto, where at least 10 people died in the ransacking. The protests quickly escalated to a weeklong spree of violence, South Africa's worst rioting since the country achieved majority rule democracy in 1994.

The anger and disillusionment South Africa has seen in the past week has little to do with former president Jacob Zuma’s arrest.

Some $1bn worth of stock was stolen in KwaZulu-Natal and at least 800 shops looted, an official says.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to restore order to the country after a week of violence set off by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.

Weeklong riots were sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for refusing to comply with an investigation into alleged corruption.

Days of widespread violence and looting prompt the biggest deployment since the end of apartheid.

Protests erupted in South Africa last week after former President Jacob Zuma handed himself in to police to serve a 15-month jail term for contempt of court.

South Africa’s army has begun deploying 25,000 troops to assist police in quelling weeklong riots and violence sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.

In one of the largest deployments of soldiers since the end of white minority rule, 25,000 South African troops began taking up positions Thursday to help quell weeklong riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. The government said 10,000 soldiers were on the streets by Thursday morning patrolling alongside police, and the South African National Defence Force had also called up all of its reserve force of 12,000 troops. In a show of strength, a convoy of more than a dozen armored personnel carriers brought soldiers into Gauteng province, South Africa's most populous, which includes the largest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria.

A Durban resident tells the BBC he is struggling for food and medicine after so many shops were looted.

With armed militias entering the melee, some fear "there will be war, and that's the thing we don't want here in South Africa."

South African police and the army are struggling to bring order to impoverished areas of South Africa rocked by weeklong unrest and days of looting sparked by the imprisonment last week of ex-President Jacob Zuma.

Surveying the uneasy standoff between South African soldiers and huddles of young men faced off Wednesday across the rubble-strewn street in front of Soweto’s Maponya mall, Katlego Motati shook her head sadly. “I’m standing here against vandals and hooligans,” the 32-year-old said of the weeklong unrest and looting sparked by the imprisonment of ex-President Jacob Zuma, which has left at least 72 people dead. “When I saw the destruction on the news, I was in tears, seeing how all this has panned out," Motati said.

Some South Africans are clearing up as protests continue over the arrest of ex-President Jacob Zuma.

At least 72 people die in days of rioting sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma.

The arrest of former President Jacob Zuma has sparked violence and lawlessness in two provinces, leaving more than 30 dead.

The military struggle to quell the looting and violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.

The military struggle to quell the looting and violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.

South Africa’s police say 72 people have been killed and 1,234 have been arrested in unrest set off by the imprisonment last week of former President Jacob Zuma.

South Africa's rioting continued Tuesday with the death toll rising to 32 as police and the military struggle to quell the looting and violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. Many of the deaths occurred in chaotic stampedes as scores of people looted food, electric appliances, liquor, and clothing from retail centers, KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala told the press on Tuesday morning.

Shops are looted and buildings set on fire as the jailed former president challenges his sentence.

Police said shops and businesses have been looted and vandalized.

Rioting triggered by the imprisonment of former South African President Jacob Zuma is escalating.

Police say criminals are taking advantage of the unrest following the former president's jailing.

Supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma are protesting his imprisonment, burning trucks, commercial property, and blocking major roads in KwaZulu-Natal province. Zuma started serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court earlier this week.

Jacob Zuma achieves political ignominy as the first former president of South Africa to be jailed.

Jacob Zuma began serving a 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court after handing himself over to police minutes before a midnight deadline.

Human rights groups have welcomed the imprisonment of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who on Thursday began serving a 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court after handing himself over to police minutes before a midnight deadline. Zuma was being held at the Estcourt Correctional Center in KwaZulu-Natal province about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from his rural home in Nkandla. Zuma, 79, was convicted and sentenced for defying a court order to testify before a judicial commission investigating widespread allegations of corruption during his 2009-2018 presidency.

The ex-president was given a 15-month jail term after he failed to attend a corruption inquiry.

South Africa's police have until Wednesday to arrest ex-president Jacob Zuma after a court order.

A landmark court decision announced this week gives many South Africans reassurance that their governing institutions work. On June 29, the country’s constitutional court ruled that former president Jacob Zuma must serve 15 months in prison for failing to appear before a commission investigating corruption during Zuma’s presidency (2009-2018). Zuma not only rejected the commission’s authority and refused to answer charges or mount a defense, he also wrote a 21-page letter to the chief justice of the constitutional court that charged that the corruption commission was “established to destroy the work that I did when I served my country as President.”

Former South African president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday continued his efforts to avoid imprisonment by urging a regional court to block his arrest by police. Zuma's lawyers called on the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal province to stop the order made last week by the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, that police must arrest Zuma by midnight on Wednesday after he was sentenced last week to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. Zuma's lawyers argued that the court should stop the police from arresting him until the Constitutional Court rules on his application to rescind the sentence, which will be heard on July 12.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma refused to surrender himself to police by Sunday after the country's highest court sentenced him to 15 months' imprisonment for contempt.

Ignoring efforts to defuse a tense standoff, former South African President Jacob Zuma told hundreds of supporters gathered outside his rural estate that he is appealing the 15-month prison sentence and his impending arrest by police. Several witnesses, including former Cabinet ministers and top executives of state-owned corporations, have testified of Zuma's wrongdoing, including allowing his associates, the Gupta family, to influence his Cabinet appointments and lucrative state contracts. Zuma did not turn himself in to authorities within five days, as the court ruling had ordered, and now faces arrest by police.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has sent some of its top leaders to defuse rising tensions over the pending arrest of former President Jacob Zuma. Earlier this week, Zuma was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by the Constitutional Court for contempt of court. Hundreds of Zuma’s staunchest supporters have gathered outside his home in KwaZulu-Natal province, vowing to resist any police attempts to take him into custody.

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South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Tuesday for contempt of court. He still faces corruption charges.

Jacob Zuma had defied a court order to appear at an inquiry into corruption while he was president.