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Thuma Mina! Mmusi Maimane offers to mend fences with US

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Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane would be amenable to travelling to Washington to deal with the diplomatic impasse between South Africa and the

Dig unearths major Iron Age find in UK 

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Artefacts recovered in what is being described as one of the biggest and most important Iron Age hoards ever found in the UK could change

Burundi claims Rwanda planning to attack

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The President of Burundi, Évariste Ndayishimiye, has told the BBC that he has seen credible intelligence reports that Rwanda is planning on attacking Burundi. In

Support #NoMoreRaceLaws Bill, or bring back apartheid’s race registration law, IRR urges MPs

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Parliament must either adopt the #NoMoreRaceLaws Bill – published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) today – and so formally repeal all race-based statutory

SA Air Force is in tatters

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The South African Air Force (SAAF) has all but collapsed, and has no fighting capacity left, according to News24. It has only six operable military

Carney calls snap election in Canada

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Mark Carney, the new Canadian Prime Minister, has called a snap election for the end of April. Carney, who recently succeeded Justin Trudeau as leader

Ramaphosa’s cautionary stance on Trump “openly challenged”

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News24 reports that ANC “elder” Snuki Zikalala has “openly challenged“ President Cyril Ramaphosa’s stance against exacerbating the tensions between South Africa and the United States.

Free trade in Canada could offset US tariffs – Carney

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Freeing federal barriers to trade across provincial and territorial boundaries is being punted by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as a way of offsetting the

Pope Francis leaves hospital

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Shortly after offering a blessing from his Gemelli hospital window in Rome yesterday, his first public appearance since 14 February, 88-year-old Pope Francis was discharged

Why R140m went to dead grant “beneficiaries” – Sassa

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The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has blamed delays in death registrations and system limitations for its payment of R140 million in social grants