Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid activist and wealthy businessman before becoming president of South Africa in 2018, was inaugurated this Wednesday for a second five-year term in which he will lead a coalition government unprecedented in thirty years of multiracial democracy in the country. Ramaphosa topped the list with the most votes in the seventh general […]
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Concerns that will mark elections in South Africa: inequality, crime and corruption
South Africamost industrialized country Africa, will hold general elections this Wednesday involved in an electoral debate in which citizen concerns such as inequality, criminality, corruption or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can condition the result. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) of the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been in power since Nelson Mandela ended the racist […]
Half a thousand rhinos killed in South Africa due to poaching
Poachers killed nearly 500 last year rhinos in South Africa11% more than in 2022, despite the government’s efforts to protect a species threatened by the supposed therapeutic or aphrodisiac properties of its horns. South Africa is home to a 80% of the world’s rhino population, but there are many poachers who seek to get rich […]
Mahatma Gandhi, the pacifist icon who never won the Nobel Peace Prize
Questions about why the iconic leader of India’s non-violence movement, Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), was left out of the laureates with the Nobel Prize of peace are revived this October 2, like every year on the anniversary of the birth of the great pacifist of the 20th century. “Remembering Mahatma Gandhi the night before his 154th […]
The expansion of the BRICS, the dawn of a new world order?
The group of emerging economies BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) gave the bell this week by announcing in Johannesburg the accession to the bloc of six countries, including Argentina, and left a question mark: Will this expansion mark the beginning of a new world order? ? Amid enormous expectation, the President of […]
India achieves first descent near the lunar south pole, in the face of Russia’s failure
India achieved this Wednesday the first descent of a automatic ship near to lunar south polea historic triumph for the world’s most populous country and its ambitious space program Low cost. The Chandrayaan-3 ship, which means “moon ship” in Sanskrit, landed on the moon at 6:04 p.m. in India (12:34 p.m. GMT), to the applause […]
What are the countries that aspire to be part of the BRICS?
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) begin a new summit in Johannesburg this Tuesday, in which one of the main topics of discussion will be the expansion of this bloc with other emerging powers or countries of another type. Heterogeneous The five BRICS countries, which made up this alliance in 2009, currently […]
Four keys to following the BRICS summit in South Africa
The group of emerging economies BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will hold its XV Summit of Heads of State and Government next week in Johannesburg. The summit will take place under the motto “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for mutually accelerated growth, sustainable development and inclusive multilateralism”. The keys to be able to […]
BRICS: Argentina and Saudi Arabia want to join the club of emerging “powers”
Twenty-two countries submitted their candidature to join the group of BRICS and others showed an interest in joining, he said on Thursday South Africawhich will host the next summit of the five rising powers. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), seeking to gain more weight in international institutions, assured that they were open […]
Putin, threatened with arrest, will not attend the summit of Brics countries in South Africa
the russian president Vladimir Putinthe target of an international arrest warrant, will not attend the summit of the BRICS countries in South Africa in August, the South African presidency said on Wednesday, ending months of speculation. Putin’s possible visit had become a controversial issue for South Africa, as the Russian president is the subject of […]