South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, a former anti-apartheid activist and freedom fighter, responded to Trump's claims at their meeting in the Oval Office diplomatically, countering Trump's assertions.
All-party parliamentary delegations on Friday met leaders and diplomats from several countries to galvanise international action against terrorists and decisively counter the tactics of those who perpetrate, support and sponsor cross-border terror activities against India.
As Prabhakaran was leaving his house, Rajiv Gandhi called his son Rahul and asked him to fetch his (Gandhi's) bulletproof jacket. He put the jacket on Prabhakaran's back and remarked with his usual charming smile: "Take care of yourself."
Ravi Sinha is described as "highly tech-savvy", and credited with infusing modern technology in the field of intelligence collection.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has conceded for the first time that divisions within the ruling African National Congress prevented appropriate action against the influential Gupta family from India for their alleged involvement in massive state capture.
The report said Zuma 'would do anything that the Guptas wanted him to do for them,' including firing competent ministers and senior officials at parastatal institutions, so that Gupta lackeys could be appointed to those positions.
The Indian-origin people in Durban have trained their guns on the African National Congress for using Mahatma Gandhi's images in election posters, with some of them wanting to know whether the ruling party was so "bankrupt" that it could not attract voters on its own values and principles.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa's anti-apartheid icon who won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting racial discrimination in the country, died on Sunday. He was 90.
A politically-connected business dynasty that moved to South Africa from India, the Gupta family finds itself at the centre of many of the scandals that have dogged now former president Jacob Zuma's administration. A day after the ruling African National Congress ordered Zuma out of office, the Guptas' prominent role in his presidency was highlighted. So who are the Guptas and how close are their links to Zuma?
The condition of former President Nelson Mandela is critical, the South African presidency has said, two weeks after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon was admitted to a hospital with a recurrent lung infection. President Jacob Zuma and African National Congress deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa visited Mandela on Sunday evening, Mac Maharaj, presidential spokesman, said in a statement.
A controversial lavish Indian wedding in South Africa has created a rift between President Jacob Zuma and the ruling African National Congress, according to a media report on Monday.
South Africa's ruling African National Congress has rubbished as a "publicity tactic" and "astonishing silliness" the legal challenge thrown by two opposition parties against its handling of a failed visa bid by the Dalai Lama.
'Anything that couldn't be stolen they destroyed.' Saloni Dhumne and Atreya Raghavan speak to members of the Indian community in Durban -- the largest congregation of Indians outside India -- who were targeted in last month's horrific riots.
'The Government of India could aggressively promote developmental projects that will alleviate poverty particularly in communities where South Africans of Indian origin and our black brothers and sisters live as neighbours.'
Biographer of Nelson Mandela and veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Dr Fatima Meer, a recipient of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, died in Durban on Friday after a long illness. She was 81.
South Africa's ruling ANC said on Sunday it was "disgusted" by the way international and South African athletics bodies had handled the case of world champion runner Caster Semenya, who is undergoing gender tests.
While celebrating our democracy and its biggest rituals we also need to think about the kind of society we are building.
Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, commissioner of South Africa Revenue Service since November 1999, is the frontrunner to succeed Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.
The United States House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously passed a legislation to erase the government-imposed stigma against membership in the African National Congress of South Africa, the party of Nobel Laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela. The bill, authored by Congressman and California Democrat Howard Berman would remove any notation that would characterise the ANC and its leaders, as terrorists.
Former Indian-origin anti-apartheid sports administrators in South Africa have strongly condemned the racist statement of a ruling party MP, who had said the country's Olympic body was "full of whites and Indians" who lack vision.
Capping a prolonged power struggle within the country's ruling African National Congress, South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday night announced his resignation but denied the charge of interfering with justice in a corruption case to nail his challenger for the top post Jacob Zuma."Fellow South Africans, since the attainment of our freedom in 1994, we have acted consistently to respect and defend the independence of the judiciary," he said.
The South African government will appeal Oscar Pistorius's six-year murder sentence, Talk Radio 702 said on Thursday.
With the ruling African National Congress failing to address the concerns of the Indians in South Africa, calls for the revival of the disbanded Natal Indian Congress (NIC), founded by Mahatma Gandhi to fight injustice against community in South Africa, is growing rapidly.
Kathrada, who frequently referred to Mandela as his 'elder brother', was among three political prisoners who were sentenced to life imprisonment together with the South African anti-apartheid icon after the infamous Rivonia Trial of 1964.
Point Road, known as a prostitution hub, will be renamed after Gandhi within three months by the government.
The April 27 swearing in coincided with "Freedom Day", symbolising the end of apartheid and the beginning of multi-racial democracy in South Africa.
The local Daily News, edited by Indian-origin Dennis Pather, wrote an editorial condemning the letter and said Rajbansi was a product of apartheid politics.
South Africa's president pledged to promote sport following disappointments in ther cricket and rugby World Cup and All-African Games.
An ANC survey shows 37 percent of Indians preferred a return to the apartheid regime.
'Do you remember me?' the Nobel Peace Prize winner asked the Indian superstar.
The South African prosecution authority confirmed on Tuesday it would file an appeal against the culpable homicide verdict and five-year jail sentence handed down to paralympian Oscar Pistorius last month.
Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and a member of Nelson Mandela's party, recalls some fond memories of the South African legend in a conversation with Sheela Bhatt.
In a televised statement he said he was quitting with immediate effect but said he disagreed with his African National Congress party's decision.
Nelson Mandela's grieving family today thanked people for their support during the peace icon's long health challenges and said they are "overwhelmed" by the global outpouring of heartfelt tributes on his death.
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg has been defaced by a group of people who threw buckets of white paint on it amid racist taunts.
She was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, where the committee had mentioned her work "magnificent epic writing" which had been of "great benefit to humanity."
Kolkata police sergeant Guruprasad Banerjee, who acted as an escort to Nelson Mandela's convoy during his visit to Kolkata in October 1990, recalls the legendary anti-apartheid activist as one of the most down to earth international dignitaries.
South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius was sent to prison for six years on Wednesday for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the latest twist in a trial that has gripped the world.
South Africa is heading for polls on May 7. Shubha Singh examines how the Indian vote can make a difference in Durban
Compromise, constitutionality, pragmatism and self-respect. These were Mandela's leadership virtues. For countries such as India and South Africa, these are the qualities leaders must have, says Mihir S Sharma
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