South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, March 12 (Reuters) - Cyclone Freddy battered central Mozambique on Sunday after making landfall for a second time in a month, breaking records for the duration and strength of tropical storms in the southern hemisphere.

Communications and electricity supply in the storm area have been cut so the extent of the damage and number of casualties were not clear.

8 Mar 2023; MEMO: South Africa's parliament voted yesterday to downgrade the country's embassy in Israel due to the ongoing Israeli occupation and abuses of international human rights law in occupied Palestine.

JOHANNESBURG, March 2 (Xinhua) -- South Africa will host the BRICS Summit in Gauteng Province on Aug. 22-24, said Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele on Thursday.

Gungubele made the remarks while briefing the media about the cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

This year's summit will be held under the theme: "BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development, and Inclusive Multilateralism," according to the minister.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Russian military denied Wednesday that it was planning to test its new Zircon hypersonic missiles during naval drills off the coast of South Africa this week that will coincide with the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.

China’s navy also is participating in the Indian Ocean exercises, which come at a time when Russia’s relationship with the West is at its lowest point since the Cold War, and ties between China and the United States are under serious strain.

16 Feb 2023; MEMO: The BRICS group of nations is to decide this year on whether to admit new member states into the bloc, as Saudi Arabia and Iran formally seek to join.

According to South Africa's ambassador to BRICS, Anil Sooklal, the proposal to expand the bloc will be one of its main focuses this year.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious and deadly disease similar to Ebola, following the deaths of at least nine people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster on Thursday evening to address the country's electricity crisis.

"The National Disaster Management Center has consequently classified the energy crisis and its impact as a disaster. We are therefore declaring a national state of disaster to respond to the electricity crisis and its effects," said Ramaphosa while delivering his 2023 State of the Nation Address in Cape Town.

08 Feb 2023; MEMO: South African search and rescue experts, as well as medical teams arrived in Turkiye on Wednesday to help victims of Monday's deadly quakes in which over 9,000 people have, so far, died, a humanitarian organisation said, Anadolu News Agency reports.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (NNN-BUANEWS) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, said yesterday that, the electricity crisis in the country, continues to undermine economic growth and investment.

“Load shedding damages businesses, disrupts households, compromises the provision of social services, and affects the safety and well-being of the people,” Ramaphosa, also president of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, made the remarks at the ANC’s National Executive Council lekgotla.

MBABANE, January 24. /TASS/: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that wherever he travels the West seeks to make the host country behave in a way that’s desirable to the US.