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A female white rhinoceros with a six-month old baby in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve adjacent to Kruger National Park, South Africa. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dehorning rhinos — to save them

Elizabeth Hlavinka
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with Donald Trump at the White House, May 21, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White genocide, white guilt and Trump

Andrew O'Hehir
US President Donald Trump shows pictures and articles as he meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington's resettlement of white Afrikaners that the US president claims are the victims of "genocide." (Photo by Jim Watson/Getty Images)

Trump pushes "genocide" in Oval Office

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump opens door to white South Africans

Griffin Eckstein
A detachment of German soldiers on their way to install parking signs in preparation for the 8th Congress of the Nazi Party at Nuremberg, 3rd September 1936. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Aggrieved white men: Threat to democracy

Bernd Reiter
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in Tel Aviv on December 24, 2023. (OHAD ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The end of the fair fight

Sophia A. McClennen
Vusimuzi Madonsela, South African Amabassador in the Netherlands, and Ronald Lamola, South African Minister of Justice prepare to attend a heraring as South Africa has requested the court to indicate measures concerning alleged violations of human rights by Israel in Gaza on January 11, 2024 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Michel Porro/Getty Images)

South Africa's "devastating" Israel case

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Public hearings in South Africa's genocide case against Israel began on Thursday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on January 11, 2024. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel accused of Gaza genocide at ICJ

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Seasonal farm labourers pick tomatoes on a farm in the Boland region of the Cape Province. These tomatoes were destined to go to a canning factory to be made into tinned tomatoes. (Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

The real cost of farming in S. Africa

Karissa Moothoo Padayachie - The Conversation
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Food insecurity in South Africa

Agnes Erzse, Aviva Tugendhaft - The Conversation
A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

How a water crisis catalyzed Cape Town

Matthew Wingfield - The Conversation
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu during a hand over of a donation of R24 million by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Gauteng Food Bank at the Gauteng Social Development Warehouse in Booysens on July 24, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

1 in 5 at risk of hunger in South Africa

Asanda Mtintsilana - The Conversation
Netters try to catch sardines at the Warner beach, south of Durban on June 20, 2021. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The fishers marginalized since apartheid

Kathleen Auld, Loretta Feris - The Conversation
President Reagan bids farewell to President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko as he departs concluding talks at the White House (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Africa, Ukraine and Cold War hangover

Mohammad Ali Salih
The Liberian-registered oil tanker Goldway berths at Hound Point Oil Terminal on the Forth Estuary, as uncertainty continues in the global oil market as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis (Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Oil exploration threatens marine life

P.K. Read - Undark
Jarrid Geduld in "Indemnity" (Magnolia Pictures)

"What if trauma can be weaponized?"

Gary M. Kramer
A test sample tube labeled 'COVID-19 Omicron variant' (Getty Images/David Talukdar)

What comes after the omicron hump

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker fills up a syringe with a vaccines dose against COVID-19 as people queue at the Kya Sands informal settlement to be vaccinated by the Witkoppen clinic in Johannesburg on December 8, 2021. - Anti-Covid vaccines may lose effectiveness against Omicron, but one more dose could remedy this. Initial elements, notably given by the Pfizer laboratory, shed light on the capacity of the new variant to resist vaccination. Omicron is "probably not sufficiently neutralized after two doses", admitted Wednesday the groups Pfizer and BioNTech, whose anti-Covid vaccine is given in two injections. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

Omicron is dying fast in South Africa

Matthew Rozsa
Healthcare workers conduct tests at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at the Dan Paul Plaza on December 29, 2021 in Miami, Florida. In response to the increasing demand for COVID-19 tests, Miami-Dade County opened two new testing sites and expanding hours at the Zoo Miami testing location. The Zoo Miami testing site is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why omicron has a lower mortality rate

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing center (Pedro Fiuza/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Why omicron may mark the pandemic's end

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus, COVID-19 concept (Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)

Everything we know about Omicron variant

Brett Bachman
(James Ransom / Food52)

How South African foods nourished me

Tšhegofatšo Ndabane - Food52
3D model of the novel Coronavirus (Getty Images)

Mutant coronavirus strain beats vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
A patient with the COVID-19 breaths in oxygen in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on December 29, 2020. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

The scariest coronavirus mutation yet

Matthew Rozsa
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