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BRICS, and the Summit: BRICS, a supranational organization consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa respectively, is a cooperative alliance of five major emerging economies. It is commonly understood to have a number of aims, predominantly consisting of increasing member-states’ influence in global affairs vis-a-vis economic and diplomatic coordination, as well as providing an alternative voice to what...

A Background: During an Economic Freedom Fighters rally on Saturday, leader Julius Malema led chants of "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" to a 90,000-strong stadium of Johannesburg supporters. The contemporary usage of the Apartheid-era chant has been heavily criticized due to the exponential rise of brutal attacks against farmers since the African National Congress came to power, With 2183...

South Africa has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not in fact attend the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) economic summit that will be held in Johannesburg between August 20th and 22nd. This comes after the ICC (International Criminal Court) ordered an arrest warrant for Putin, and South Africa, being a member of the ICC,...

The conflict in the Eastern DRC is set to grow significantly larger as the Southern African Development Community announced Monday after a meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, that they will be deploying troops to the Eastern DRC in order to join the fight against the M23 rebel group, which is one of the most prominent of the 100+ groups that...

South African authorities have reported that an attack by gunmen on a homestead in the township of Imbali, KwaZulu-Natal province, left 10 members of the same family dead on Friday. National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters that two suspects have been arrested, one has been killed, and one remains at large. So far, authorities have not specified who the...