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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks agoSouth Africa was on the cutting edge of LGBTQ+ equality. Why hasn't it banned conversion therapy? - LGBTQ Nation
Conversion therapy has damaging effects on transgender individuals, and Africa's historical acceptance of queer identities contrasts sharply with current intolerance.
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks agoWhy South Africa is sending soldiers into cities
Scenes like this have become common in South Africa. Estimates suggest that around 64 people are killed across the country daily. Figures from the online database Numbeo show how widespread the issue is. Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Gqeberha, formerly known as Port Elizabeth, rank as the five most dangerous cities in the country.
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World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoHow the US far right bought into the myth of white South Africa's persecution
Orania, a segregated South African town established in 1991, maintains racial exclusivity through private property designation while conducting an experiment in self-sufficiency without relying on people of color for labor.
SF politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks agoSegregation': Multimillion-dollar crime wall causes uproar in S Africa
Cape Town's proposed N2 highway wall to combat crime highlights inequality, as residents lack basic services while authorities fund security infrastructure instead of housing and sanitation improvements.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month agoOur children were sold off': The South Africans sent to fight Russia's war
African men, including South Africans, were deceived into traveling to Russia for security training but were instead conscripted into paramilitary forces and sent to fight in Ukraine, with African soldiers reporting worse treatment than others on the front lines.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoHistory longs to heal': how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice
The African Union declared 2025 the year of reparations and extended it through 2036, advancing a continental push for justice and redress for colonialism, slavery, and their lasting impacts.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks agoSouth Africa's president calls Trump's policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners racist'
South African President Ramaphosa criticizes Trump's refugee policy for white Afrikaners as racist, citing Trump's false claims about white genocide and land seizure in South Africa.
Miscellaneous
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 month agoPrisoner exchanges are not peace, but they are human - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
A large prisoner exchange returned 314 POWs, reuniting families and freeing unlawfully prosecuted Ukrainians, but such swaps do not indicate genuine diplomatic progress.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months agoSouth Africa's Venice Biennale artist appeals to president after pavilion cancelled by minister
Elegy, part of a series the artist began in 2015, is a ritual lament. In each version that is performed, seven operatically trained woman singers sing and sustain a B note for an hour. They line up behind a dais, begin the note and as their breath runs out, they pass the note on to the next person. Goliath tells The Art Newspaper that performances are a tribute to and commemoration of "women, femme and non-gender-conforming individuals from South Africa, who have been subject to fatal acts of sexualised and gendered violence".
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