Brumelda Zuma, a daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, was sworn in as a lawmaker Wednesday, filling the parliamentary seat left vacant by her half-sister who resigned amid allegations of recruiting South Africans to fight as mercenaries in Ukraine. The rapid family succession highlights the continued grip the Zuma name holds over the…
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has abruptly resigned from the National Assembly amid a police probe into claims she helped recruit 17 South African men to fight for Russia in Ukraine. The 42-year-old politician, a member of the opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party founded by her father, former president Jacob Zuma, stepped down on Friday. She had been…
In a fiery post on his Truth Social platform, United States President Donald Trump declared that South Africa would not receive an invitation to the 2026 Group of 20 G20 summit, which the United States is set to host in Miami, Florida. The announcement, made on Wednesday 26 November 2025, escalated a long-simmering feud between…
US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that South Africa will be excluded from next year’s G20 summit hosted by the United States, escalating a bitter diplomatic feud and immediately halting all remaining payments and subsidies to the African nation. In a characteristically blunt social media post, Trump declared: “At my direction, South Africa will…
As the dust settles on the G20 summit in Johannesburg, a palpable sense of missed opportunity lingers across the Global South. Leaders from the world’s major economies gathered over the weekend promising bold action on the debt crisis strangling developing nations, yet walked away with little more than recycled pledges. Summit ends in disappointment South…
