EFF leader Julius Malema’s trademark song is “Shoot the Boer, Shoot the farmer”, which he sings at political rallies. Afrikaner lobby groups have tried to get the song banned, saying it was highly inflammatory and amounted to hate speech. However, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that Malema is within his rights to … Read more
US President Donald Trump confronted South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday over widely discredited claims that genocide is being committed against white people. A week after the US rankled South Africa by granting asylum to nearly 60 Afrikaners, Ramaphosa visited the White House to reset the countries’ relations. Instead Trump put his counterpart on the … Read more
An al-Qaeda linked group says it carried out a major attack on the Malian town of Boulikessi, and seized control of an army base. More than 30 soldiers were killed in Sunday’s attack, according to sources quoted by the Reuters news agency, however that figure has not been confirmed by the authorities. On Monday the … Read more
Dubbed “Germany’s forgotten genocide”, and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia. Almost 40 years before their use in the Holocaust, concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used … Read more
New Delhi: The Chenab railway bridge is a construction marvel. Built at a height of 359m over the Chenab River, it is the tallest railway bridge arch in the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Jammu and Kashmir and inaugurated the Chenab Bridge by waving the flag and later hailed that these projects are ‘transformative’. … Read more