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Nine months after first imposing the restrictions, the UK did not remove South Africa from its red list in a 17 September update. (Photo by May James/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Former British minister urges Boris Johnson to remove SA from UK Covid red travel list

Peter Hain has written a letter to the prime minister saying the red listing of South Africa has ‘no justification whatsoever in science’

Campaigner: A young Peter Hain addresses an anti-apartheid meeting in London. (Photo by Watford/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

Global players enabled ‘Zupta’ corruption

The Zupta decade: Governments and global corporates, banks and consultants must stop enabling money laundering

(Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images)

Zimbabwe: After the crackdown, the purge

Targeted abductions and detentions are dismantling opposition to President Mnangagwa’s government

Peter Hain

​O’Sullivan, Hain pile pressure on UK ’state capture’ law firm

Under his nonprofit Forensics for Justice, O’Sullivan’s letter blames Hogan Lovells for the legal manoeuvres of three of its “sordid clients”

Proteas bowler Kagiso Rabada.

Why it has taken so long to prosecute state capture cases in South Africa

"The failure of the NPA to act swiftly and vigorously against those involved in state capture shows that there has been a dereliction of duty."

Peter Hain

Lord Hain seeks probe into Barclays’ Gupta-linked accounts

Lord Peter Hain has requested an "immediate investigation" into bank accounts held in London by South African state owned enterprises

Ramaphosa said the direct discussions with Zuma would lay the basis for a speedy resolution

The self-fulfilling prophecy of Zuma and friends

The investigation into President Jacob Zuma and his pals the Guptas has now effectively been internationalised.

The Turkish people are confused as to who to trust – the president or the government – after a row between the prime minister and the president on the Kurdish issue.

Activist UK lord stalks Guptas

ANC veterans asked him to get the UK to probe those involved with the family in state capture

Mandela ‘breathed fire’ over Iraq War, says ex-UK minister

Nelson Mandela was so upset over UK invading Iraq that he called a government minister and "virtually breathed fire", the ex-minister has revealed.

Prospects grow for election run-off in Zim

Prospects for a run-off in Zimbabwe’s election appeared to increase on Wednesday after state media said President Robert Mugabe had failed to win a majority for the first time in…

Tutu calls for international peacekeepers in Zim

South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu on Wednesday proposed sending an international peacekeeping force to Zimbabwe in the wake of the unresolved presidential elections. Tutu…