LIKE THE iPod and MySpace, the BRICS bloc is a product of the benign optimism of the 2000s. Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, will be joined by leaders including Narendra Modi of India, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and China’s Xi Jinping. Were he to attend, then South Africa, as a member of the International Criminal Court, would …
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday congratulated India for its spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 and called it a momentous occasion for the BRICS. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Delivering his address at the open plenary session at the 15th BRICS Summit today, Ramaphosa said, "I would like to congratulate India, particularly as you speak about the need for cooperation in Space. …
JOHANNESBURG — Rampant corruption has seriously damaged South Africa’s economy and people’s trust in the government, President Cyril Ramaphosa testified Wednesday at a judicial inquiry into graft in the county. Ramaphosa was speaking at the commission investigating “state capture,” the term for the corruption under former President Jacob Zuma’s tenure in which his associates in the Gupta family allegedly won …
Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South African liberation hero Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has been laid to rest following her death earlier this week. Zindzi Mandela, who was South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark, had tested positive for coronavirus before her death in the early hours of Monday at a hospital in Johannesburg, according to her family. …