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Just weeks after the United States invited Afrikaners to become refugees, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has cut off funding to civil society organisations providing services to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa.
A Pretoria-based group is calling for white South Africans to refrain from “victimhood” and is encouraging unity among black and white South Africans amid US President Donald Trump’s executive order offering to resettle Afrikaner refugees.
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race.
The Ukrainian Association of South Africa (UAZA) has called on all countries to take strong, decisive action to ensure Ukraine has ‘the military, economic, and diplomatic support needed to win the war against Russia to secure long-lasting peace’.
President Cyril Ramaphosa apparently put a compromise proposal on the table during a Cabinet meeting last week regarding the VAT increase after his finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, painted a grim picture of how his budget speech would look without it.
In an unprecedented move, which is viewed as a breach of regulations and the Lotteries Act, Parks Tau wrote to all the bidders for the R180 billion lottery licence tender last month, informing them about the extension of the validity period.
South African ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool hopes incoming US chargé d’affaires David Greene’s appointment to Pretoria will provide an opportunity for both nations to “reset” their relationship and engage in more mature and constructive dialogue.
Under pressure to finalise a Budget by 12 March after his proposed VAT increase was shot down, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has now faced questions from political parties pressing him to find funds to plug the gap left by the US’ withdrawal of donor dollars.
Clay pigeon shooting, the ANC’s muscle memory from its glory days, his irritation with the misinformation about land expropriation and whether the rumours that Geordin Hill-Lewis might be tipped to take over as DA leader are true — when News24 spoke to John Steenhuisen this week, nothing was off the table.
Thirty-five years of being the golden child was nice, but it’s over. South Africa is now just another normal country that must fight for its own interests, wealth and prosperity, writes News24 editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson in the Weekend Essay.