Rachel Savage
South Africa Correspondent at The Guardian
Southern Africa Correspondent @Guardian | Past: @Reuters, @Openly, @TheEconomist in Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi & London | 🏳️🌈
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2 days ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Savage |David SMith |David Smith
A group of white South Africans have arrived in the US after being granted refugee status by Donald Trump’s administration, stirring controversy in South Africa by declaring Afrikaners victims of racial discrimination. The Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists, were met at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC by US deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and deputy secretary of homeland security, Troy Edgar, with many given US flags to wave.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Savage
South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa is setting up an inquiry into whether past ANC governments interfered with the investigation and prosecution of apartheid-era crimes, amid criticism from the families of victims.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Savage
Kyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers failed to get the kettle and iron working, so were unable to burn anyone. Then the gun trigger jammed when they tried to shoot Kyle in the spine. “They specifically said they were coming back for this farm … [that] it was their land,” said the 43-year-old, who did not want to use his full name.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Savage
Diplomats from eight southern and east African countries have signed a letter calling on the UK government to support a private member’s bill that aims to speed up debt restructurings, after economic crises meant multiple countries were unable to pay back loans.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Dan Sabbagh |Rachel Savage
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine could not accept US recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea as he visited South Africa, while both he and Donald Trump criticised a deadly missile and drone attack on Kyiv. Though he did not mention Crimea – the contested Black Sea peninsula occupied by Russia since spring 2014 – by name, Ukraine’s president diplomatically returned to the topic a day after Trump accused him of intransigence on the issue.
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