The U.S. Embassy in South Africa says it has received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government.

European Union leaders have announced a 4.7 billion euro, or about $5.1 billion, investment package in South Africa to support green energy transition and vaccine production.

Lawmakers in South Africa have laid out plans to shore up the budgets for health and defense but also put up value added tax by 0.5%, a move that will raise the cost of living.

The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts.

More than 100 firefighters are battling two blazes on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to respond to threats from U_S_ counterpart Donald Trump by saying in his annual speech to the nation that his country would “not be bullied.”.

More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial more than 100 years later.

France is rushing rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte after the island group off Africa was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century.

Britain’s Prince William described the past year as “brutal” as he faced work while his wife and father were treated for cancer.

Prince William rode on a sea rescue boat along part of the South African coast as he wrapped up a four-day visit to Cape Town dedicated to promoting conservation and the battle against climate change.

Britain’s Prince William offered words of encouragement to a group of young environmentalists and later joined a rugby practice at a local school as he opened his visit to South Africa.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court says it will hear a case next month brought by two opposition parties to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Eswatini’s main opposition party claims its leader was poisoned in an assassination attempt.

Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies.

A former top official at South Africa’s state-owned passenger railway company has received a 15-year concurrent prison sentence for faking his engineering qualifications and other cases of fraud.

Congo has recorded 1,030 of the 1,405 new mpox cases in Africa over the last week.

An international group of astronomers has joined calls to create a standard for keeping time on the moon, where seconds tick by faster.

The South African city of Cape Town and surrounding areas have been hit by more storms, ripping roofs off houses and causing widespread flooding.

Scientists have identified a giant salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs that likely ruled waters 280 million years ago.

South African health authorities say two people have died this week after contracting mpox, and it appears there is local transmission of the disease.

South Africa’s election has decided little, other than the African National Congress that liberated the country from apartheid in 1994 has lost its 30-year majority.

A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public.

Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter weekend church gathering plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa, killing at least 45 people.

A man charged with terrorism and other offenses over a 2022 fire that badly damaged South Africa’s historic Parliament complex in Cape Town has been declared unfit to stand trial.

A majority of South African lawmakers have voted in favor of a motion calling for the closure of the Israeli embassy and the cutting of diplomatic ties until Israel agrees to a cease-fire in Gaza.

A presidential inquiry in South Africa has found government officials didn't know a U.S.-sanctioned Russian ship was assigned to deliver military equipment to the country until the vessel neared national waters.

A British man has been killed amid violent protests in the South African city of Cape Town after the vehicle he was riding in drove into the midst of some of the unrest.

Two people have been fatally shot on a fifth day of violent protests in the South African city of Cape Town sparked by a dispute last week between minibus taxi drivers and authorities.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked secretly at a naval base in December.

South African police say that a convicted murderer who faked his death to escape prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt.

The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it declared two months ago to deal with an electricity crisis, although there are no signs that the power problems are ending.

Russia, China and South Africa are set to begin naval drills off South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast in a demonstration of the countries’ close ties amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.

South Africa’s parliament voted against starting impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a report that says he held undeclared foreign currency at his farm in 2020.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to step down after a parliamentary probe found he may have breached anti-corruption laws in connection with the alleged theft of a large amount of money from his Phala Phala game farm.

A moody, brooding and floating installation by Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa is transforming the towering atrium of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s attempts to speak in Parliament were disrupted for a second day Friday as opposition lawmakers confronted him over allegations he tried to cover up the theft of cash from 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.

A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from conducting any further seismic surveys in the country’s Indian Ocean waters to explore for offshore oil and gas deposits.

Ethiopia is being urged to uphold its international commitments to the freedoms of expression and the press by releasing journalists it has imprisoned.

The visiting chief of the World Health Organization says that South Africa’s efforts to produce vaccines are key to helping the African continent become more self-sufficient in inoculations to combat COVID-19 and many other diseases.

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

Firefighters have left South Africa’s Parliament complex four days after a major blaze destroyed the main chamber of the country’s national legislature.

The man suspected of starting the fire that gutted South Africa’s parliament buildings has appeared in court and will remain in custody pending his application for bail.

The fire that has already destroyed South Africa’s main Parliament chamber flared up again Monday about 36 hours after it started in the 130-year-old complex of historic buildings.

The remains of South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu have been interred during a private family service at Cape Town's Anglican cathedral.

Firefighters are battling a major blaze at South Africa’s national Parliament complex in the southern city of Cape Town.

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people.

Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LQBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice.

Desmond Tutu’s family members have gathered at his Cape Town home in preparation for his funeral this weekend as South Africans honored his life.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy is reverberating among young South Africans, many of whom were not born when the clergyman battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation’s Black majority.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work following a week of isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.

South Africans are voting in local government elections that will offer an indication if support for the ruling African National Congress has rebounded after waning in recent years.

A team of young scientists in South Africa is assembling the equipment needed to reverse engineer Moderna's coronavirus vaccine.

South Africa has started giving COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years, with a goal of inoculating at least 6 million people from this age group.

South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu is marking his 90th birthday.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his government will encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccinations but will not force them.

South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 89, came out of retirement Monday to help the country launch its drive to inoculate older citizens against the coronavirus.

South Africa says it will end its captive lion industry in a major move for conservation.

Firefighters in Cape Town have finally brought a wildfire under control after it swept across the slopes of the city’s famed Table Mountain and forced the evacuation of some neighborhoods.

(AP Photo/Halden Krog, FILE)DOHA – Roger Federer never seriously contemplated retirement while he was away from the tennis tour for more than a year. He did have a hard time dealing with the need for a repeat operation on his bad right knee, though. Obviously I couldn't believe I had to do a second one,” Federer said Sunday ahead of his appearance at the Qatar Open. That knee kept swelling up after bike rides or walks with his four children; he announced in June that he had had a second surgery. I hope, then, by Wimbledon, I’m going to be 100%, and from then on, then the season really starts for me.

(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)NAIROBI – Another 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the African continent through the Serum Institute of India, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. An Africa CDC spokesman said the 400 million doses are of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Africa also is expected to receive some 600 million doses via the global COVAX initiative aimed at helping low-income countries. As for the 270 million doses announced earlier, “we know very well some of these doses will not be available soon,” Mihigo said. He said that overall, reaching 35% of Africa’s population with COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this year could be a “realistic assumption.”Mihigo also criticized the global differences in cost for COVID-19 vaccines.

(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG – Battling a COVID-19 resurgence driven by a more infectious variant, South Africa is preparing to roll out its first vaccines to frontline healthcare workers in February. The start of South Africa's vaccination drive, one of the first in Africa, comes as the country has the continent's highest numbers of confirmed cases and deaths. South Africa's 1.4 million cumulative cases, including 41,797 deaths, represent about 40% of the cases reported by all of Africa's 54 countries. The shipment of 1 million vaccine doses produced by the Serum Institute of India is to be followed by 500,000 doses in February. The large numbers of people traveling to South Africa's coastal areas and attending family and social gatherings during the holiday season also contributed to the resurgence, according to experts.

South Africa with 60 million people has reported by far the most cases of the coronavirus in Africa, with more than 1.1 million confirmed infections. South Africa, with more than 1.2 million reported cases, including 32,824 deaths, accounts for more than 30% of the total for the continent of 54 countries and 1.3 billion people. The high proportion of cases in South Africa, could be because the country carries out more tests than many other African countries. Later in January, South Africa expects to receive its first delivery of a vaccine, 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca shot. The government said its first priority will be to inoculate the country's 1.25 million health workers.

A wine store in Cape Town, South Africa, displays a closed sign at it's entrance Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG – Scientists in South Africa are urgently testing to see if the vaccines for COVID-19 will be effective against the country's variant virus. The tests, called neutralizing assays, will help determine the reliability of vaccines against the variant, he said. The South African variant, 501.V2, is more infectious than the original COVID-19 virus and has rapidly become dominant in the country's coastal areas. South Africa has recorded more than 1.1 million cases of COVID-19, including 29,577 deaths, according to Monday figures from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Many South Africans will swap firecrackers for candles to mark New Year's Eve amid COVID-19 restrictions including a nighttime curfew responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa's call to light a candle to honor those who have died in the COVID-19 pandemic and the health workers who are on the frontline of battling the disease. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)JOHANNESBURG – Many South Africans swapped firecrackers for candles to mark New Year’s Eve amid COVID-19 restrictions including a nighttime curfew. Urging all South Africans to battle the virus, Ramaphosa called on the nation to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a different way. Instead, the mayor of South Africa's largest city will light a candle on the landmark Nelson Mandela Bridge. At midnight he will light a candle with his family and pray for everybody who has suffered from the pandemic.

Members of the leftist opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters are attacked while protesting outside the Brackenfell High School, near Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has called for restraint following clashes at an anti-racism protest outside a school in Cape Town. (AP Photo)JOHANNESBURG – South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has called for restraint Tuesday following clashes at an anti-racism protest outside a school in Cape Town. Videos circulating on social media have and South African news websites show the white adults shoving and hitting some of the Black demonstrators, shouting insults and demanding that they leave the area near the school. Alan Winde, premier of South Africa's Western Cape province where the incident took place has also called for calm and discussions instead of violence.

FILE In this Thursday, June 20, 2019 file photo, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation Address in parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. Ramaphosa announced Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 that his government will be extending relief measures to the country's poor who have been hurt by the economic downturn caused by COVID-19. (Rodger Bosch/Pool Photo via AP, FILE)JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Thursday that his government will extend relief grants to 6 million of the country’s unemployed who have been hurt by the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. “Studies have shown that these grants were vital in reducing the impact of the pandemic on levels of poverty and hunger,” said Ramaphosa. South Africa has lost up to 2.2 million jobs in the second quarter of the year, taking the unemployment rate to a record high of 42%, according to official statistics released last month.

A baboon, named Kataza by locals, eats from discarded waste from stores in Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)CAPE TOWN – Kataza already had a lengthy rap sheet with Cape Town authorities, so when he organized a band of others to raid a series of suburban homes, he was captured. There are around 15 troops in the greater Cape Town area and something in the region of 500 baboons, according to experts. She runs Baboon Matters, a conservation organization in Cape Town that seeks ways for humans and baboons to peacefully co-exist. He hasn't integrated with the Tokai troop, she said, is isolated and appears to be “depressed."

JOHANNESBURG South Africa on Saturday surpassed 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, representing more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa's 54 countries. Experts say the true toll of the pandemic worldwide is much higher than confirmed cases, due to limited testing and other reasons. We may reach 1 million cases very quickly, said Denis Chopera, a virologist based in Durban. South Africa's Gauteng province which includes Johannesburg, the country's largest city and Pretoria, the capital is the country's epicenter with more than 35% of its confirmed cases. Corruption in the countrys pandemic response is a growing problem.

For months, the city of Cape Town was the biggest coronavirus hot spot in Africa. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)CAPE TOWN When Cape Town emerged as Africas first coronavirus hot spot, Dr. Abu Mowlana was surprised by the fear that broke out among his colleagues. The most important lessons he and other doctors learned came through tragedy: The first six COVID-19 patients they put on ventilators died. Tygerberg was near the breaking point with 30-40 seriously ill COVID-19 patients coming in every day at the start of July. For another Cape Town doctor, learning lessons early was critical in saving lives.

A paramedic in personal protective equipment is seen at an ambulance outside the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday July 21, 2020. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa continues to surge, accounting for more than 50% of cases in Africa and the country with the fifth-highest number of cumulative reported infections in the world. South Africa has 373,628 confirmed cases, including 5,173 deaths, according to figures released by the health minister. The accelerating spread of COVID-19 in South Africa could be a precursor to what will happen in the rest of Africa, said World Health Organization executive director of emergencies, Dr. Mike Ryan. I think this isnt just a wake-up call for South Africa, We need to take what is happening in Africa very seriously," said Ryan at the WHO weekly news conference in Geneva on Monday.

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 19, 2020, a view of a field hospital under construction at a sports complex in Khayelitsha in Cape Town South Africa, With dramatically increased community transmission, Cape Town has become the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa and the entire continent. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)CAPE TOWN Health officials in South Africa decided Thursday to reduce the capacity of a COVID-19 field hospital in Cape Town, a sign that the situation may be improving in the city that was Africa's first coronavirus epicenter. There have been calls for the machines from all over South Africa, he said. Virus hospitalizations are surging across other parts of South Africa, especially in Gauteng province, which includes the country's biggest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria. The field hospital will be reduced to 50% of its capacity as soon as possible, MSF spokesman Christie told The Associated Press.

A health worker in personal protective gear takes a break at the Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday June 17, 2020. The country now has more than a quarter of the coronavirus cases on the 54-nation African continent with more than 73,000 cases after new, record-high infections were registered in South Africa over the weekend. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG South Africa now faces two pandemics, COVID-19 and the violence against women and children that has risen sharply since alcohol sales were allowed again on June 1, the president said Wednesday as he announced further easing of lockdown measures. South Africa has between a third and a quarter of all coronavirus cases on the African continent more than 80,000 and half of those cases have been confirmed over the past two weeks, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a national address. Ramaphosa did not give comprehensive data on the jump in violent crime since June 1, when alcohol sales returned and South Africans lined up to buy.

A woman walks on the promenade in stormy weather in Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, May 29, 2020. With dramatically increased community transmissions, Cape Town has become the center of the coronavirus outbreak in South Africa. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG South Africa says it has a backlog of nearly 100,000 unprocessed tests for the coronavirus, a striking example of the painful shortage of testing kits and reagents across Africa as cases steadily rise. South Africa has conducted more tests for the virus than any other country in Africa more than 655,000 and has the most confirmed cases with 27,403. One of the latest people to die in South Africa was an employee with the National Health Laboratory Services.

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 19, 2020, paramedics in protective gear drive in an ambulance in Khayelitsha in Cape Town South Africa, With dramatically increased community transmission, Cape Town has become the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa and the entire continent. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG Cape Town has become the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa and one of Africa's hot spots. No model upfront predicted what we see in Western Cape (province), Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize told journalists Thursday. Cape Town and Western Cape province are six to eight weeks ahead of the rest of South Africa in the outbreak, health experts said. A second hot spot in the outbreak is the Tygerburg area near Cape Town International Airport.

In this May 2, 2020, photo, Danny, a senior member of the Hard Livings gang, helps distribute food with rival gang members in Manenberg neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa. One who doesn't think much of their good deeds is J.P. Smith, who works in the mayor's office of Cape Town in charge of safety and security. He says their real business is murder, extortion, trafficking in drugs and guns, protection rackets and corrupting police and judges, noting there were 900 gang-related killings in the Cape Town area last year. You see in Manenberg, thats part of life.Despite its beauty, Cape Town was ranked last year as the 11th most-dangerous city in the world. According to the Mexico City-based Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, which compiled the list, Cape Town had 2,868 homicides in 2018, the second-most on the list behind Caracas, Venezuela.

(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)BRISBANE Restaurants can reopen in New Orleans, a city famous for its cuisine, but they must take reservations and limit the number of diners. Auto and horse racing tracks in New York can resume competitions but without spectators. The governor has let large parts of upstate New York start reopening by allowing certain businesses such as construction to operate under safety guidelines. Many restaurant owners complained that the rules for reopening were unclear and that the entire sector including suppliers and food producers was suffering. Stricter rules remain place in other parts of the U.K., and English daytrippers have been warned against crossing into Scotland or Wales.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visits Auwal Mosque on Heritage Day with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, during their royal tour of South Africa on Sept. 24, 2019, in Cape Town, South Africa. Auwal Mosque is the first and oldest mosque in SouthLONDON - Seventy-two female MPs have written to the Duchess of Sussex to express their solidarity with her in the face of the "outdated, colonial undertones" which appear against her and her family in the press. Lynch posted the letter on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, writing that women MPs from all parties had put aside their differences "to stand in solidarity with the Duchess of Sussex." Their comments come after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex spoke of the strain press coverage was causing them in an ITV documentary earlier this month. Both Harry and Meghan have recently brought legal proceedings against British newspapers.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, makes a speech as she visits a Justice Desk initiative in Nyanga township on Sept. 23, 2019, in Cape Town, South Africa. The Justice Desk initiative teaches children about their rights and provides self-defense(CNN) - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has posted a video on Instagram marking International Day of the Girl. In the clip, Meghan urges girls around the world to "keep asking questions, keep pushing forward, keep shining brightly." In the video posted Friday, Meghan says: "Every girl has potential. "It is said that girls with dreams become women with vision," she says in the speech.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visit Tembisa township to learn about Youth Employment Services (YES) on Oct. 2, 2019, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hide Caption

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visits Auwal Mosque on Heritage Day with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, during their royal tour of South Africa on Sept. 24, 2019, in Cape Town, South Africa. Auwal Mosque is the first and oldest mosque in South(CNN) - Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex secretly visited a memorial for murdered South Africa student Uyinene Mrwetyana earlier this week, Buckingham Palace confirmed to CNN. The 19-year-old, a student at the university of Cape Town, was raped and murdered in August. The brutal crime sparked widespread outrage in South Africa and once again highlighted the issue of femicide in the country. "Uyinene's death has mobilized people across South Africa in the fight against gender based violence, and is seen as a critical point in the future of women's rights in South Africa," the post said.

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, holding their son Archie, meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sept. 25, 2019. Archie's birth back in May was just one of the most anticipated births. Read on for more. Hide Caption