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Minister Ronald Lamola and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy during a meeting  at Table Bay Hotel on November 05, 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting focused on strengthening relations between South Africa and the UK. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

South Africa is eager to facilitate Russia-Ukraine peace talks, says minister Lamola

The international relations minister pressed the point after talks with British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.

Pro-Palestinian activists protest against the International Armoured Vehicles Conference (IAVC) and the International Military Helicopter (IMH) Conference being held at Twickenham Stadium on 22nd January 2024 in Twickenham, United Kingdom. IAVC is currently taking place at the stadium and IMH is scheduled to take place in February. The events are attended by representatives of companies which supply weapons and military technology to Israel used against the Palestinians. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Re-evaluating US and UK military support for Israel

Powerful nations pontificate against human rights abuses when it suits them but funding the war against civilians in Gaza appears to be an acceptable hypocrisy

At Kiev’s Independence Square

Democracy is worth defending in the face of multiple attacks from Russia and Iran to North Korea and the US

Authoritarian would-be emperors such as Putin and Jinping and the US’s military-industrial complex erode the open society and its values of individual freedoms

A man watches a television report showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 19, 2021, after the South’s military said a North Korean weapons test was believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Even the mind of Dante could not imagine the inferno a nuclear war will plunge us into

The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trial and errors, its success and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned

A man watches a television news broadcast showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on September 15, 2021, after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea according to the South’s military. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

North Korea fires ‘missile’, insists on right to weapons tests

The projectile was fired from the northern province of Jagang into waters off the east coast

Graduates are being left in the lurch by a higher education department that is simply unable to deliver the crucial certificates proving their qualifications – in some cases dating back to 1992

Where do Africans study abroad?

China is becoming the preferred destination for countries such as Ghana and Nigeria

US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

North Korea hails ‘historic’ Kim-Trump summit

Kim and Trump shook hands over the concrete slabs dividing North and South before Trump walked a few paces into Pyongyang’s territory

US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Nuclear stalemate one year after Trump-Kim summit — analysts

In Singapore, Kim signed a vaguely-worded deal on denuclearisation, touted by Trump as a historic breakthrough

North Korea slammed US National Security Advisor John Bolton on Monday, calling him a “war maniac” who should be banished, (Eric Thayer/Reuters)

North Korea slams ‘war maniac’ Bolton

North Korea has sought to raise the pressure and carried out two short-range missile tests earlier this month

Zimbabweans want justice for the Gukurahundi massacre. (Ziyange Aurony/AFP)

Zimbabwe begins exhuming victims of Gukurahundi massacre

The targets were mainly from the Ndebele ethnic group, perceived as backing a rival to Mugabe, who is from the majority Shona group

President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their talks at Far East Federal University on Russky Island in Vladivostok, Russia. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool via Reuters)

Kim, Putin vow to seek closer ties at first talks

The two leaders shook hands and shared smiles as they met and gave brief statements before heading in for the talks

El Niño is expected to cause a loss of rainfall

UN: North Korea food production ‘lowest for a decade’

Adding to the sanctions against them, North Korea’s struggle to feed itself has hit a new low.

Now, post-World Cup, is the time for Banyana to reflect and chart a way forward to ensure they are competitive in the Olympics next year. (Gallo)

Banyana seek redemption against Czechs

​Banyana Banyana take on the Czech Republic on Monday afternoon in what they will view as a crucial match in the development of the team

The leaders walked away with no set plans for a third meeting, though Trump said he hopes to see Kim again soon. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

Trump ‘walks’ as North Korea talks end abruptly without deal

The much-anticipated second meeting between the two leaders was supposed to build on their historic first summit in Singapore

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and US president Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump promises North Korea ‘awesome’ future ahead of nuclear talks

Trump’s enthusiastic tweet came hours before a second summit in Hanoi to build on the historic first meeting in Singapore in June

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the Dong Dang railway station, Vietnam, at the border with China. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

Kim arrives in Hanoi for nuclear summit with Trump

The normally sleepy Vietnamese border station of Dong Dang spruced itself up for Kim’s arrival after the leader’s 4 000km odyssey through China

The North has been less hesitant in highlighting shortcomings and policy failures through its state media since leader Kim Jong Un succeeded his late father Kim Jong Il in 2011. (Gallo)

North Korea admits farming failures amid food shortages

North Korea was one of 40 countries identified by the FAO as in need of external assistance for food

US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to “resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Pompeo heads to Pyongyang, seeking progress on Trump-Kim summit

Mike Pompeo departed from Tokyo, where he spent the first leg of a tour that will include stops in Pyongyang, South Korea and China

Tensions with Tehran are also at fever pitch after Trump pulled back from military action at the last minute in response to the downing of an unmanned US drone. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

READ IN FULL: Trump’s address to the UN General Assembly

President Donald Trump’s addressed the United Nations General Assembly today where he emphasised that ‘America is governed by Americans’

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and US president Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

China slams Trump’s ‘irresponsible and absurd logic’ on North Korea

Trump doubled down on his suggestion that China was not helping to rein in its Cold War-era ally