Rachel Savage

Johannesburg

South Africa Correspondent at The Guardian

Southern Africa Correspondent @Guardian | Past: @Reuters, @Openly, @TheEconomist in Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi & London | 🏳️‍🌈

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Articles

Namibia pushes for German reparations on first genocide remembrance day

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Savage

Namibia has observed its first genocide remembrance day, honouring the estimated 75,000 victims who were massacred by soldiers or forced into concentration camps during German colonial rule. Between 1904 and 1908, an estimated 65,000 Herero people and 10,000 Nama people were killed when the groups rejected colonial rule. It amounted to 80% and 50% of their respective populations at the time.
Praise and dismay in South Africa over president’s meeting with Trump

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Rachel Savage

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Praise and dismay in South Africa over president’s meeting with Trump

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Rachel Savage

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South Africa’s president praised for ‘calm demeanour’ during Trump meeting

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Savage

Many South Africans praised their president Cyril Ramaphosa for staying calm when Donald Trump ambushed him in the Oval Office with a video purporting to back up his false claims of a “genocide” against white Afrikaner farmers. Others asked why Ramaphosa, who brought ministers, golfers and a billionaire with him, chose to walk into what he knew was likely to be a trap. Before the televised encounter, US-South Africa relations were at a nadir.
El 'genocidio blanco' del que habla Trump no existe: la realidad frente a sus mentiras en la encerrona al presidente de Sudáfrica

2 weeks ago | eldiario.es | Rachel Savage

Fue una emboscada digna de un programa de telerrealidad. Tras un breve intercambio de cortesías para recibir en el Despacho Oval al presidente sudafricano Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump ordenó “apagar las luces” y comenzó la proyección de un vídeo que repetía las mentiras del presidente de EEUU sobre granjeros blancos sudafricanos supuestamente asesinados por su raza. Ramaphosa venía preparado.
Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims ignore the reality of life and crime in South Africa

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Savage

It was an ambush crafted straight from a reality-TV playbook. The Oval Office meeting with South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, started with exchanges of pleasantries, before Donald Trump shouted “turn the lights down” and a video was played to support his false claims that white South African farmers are being murdered for their race.
South Africa’s Ramaphosa to take golf stars to Trump meeting at White House

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Savage

The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is expected to take the golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen with him to meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, as the government attempts to reset relations with the US amid Trump’s accusations that it is fomenting a white “genocide”.
Asylangebot von Donald Trump: Tausende weiße Südafrikaner auf der Flucht

3 weeks ago | freitag.de | Rachel Savage

Aus Angst vor Kriminalität und Diskriminierung suchen weiße Südafrikaner Zuflucht in den USA – ermutigt durch ein Angebot des US-Präsidenten. Ihre Entscheidung wirft Fragen nach dem Zustand der inneren Versöhnung im Land am Kap auf Von The Guardian Kyle glaubt an den Schutz Gottes, seit er vor acht Jahren mit einem blauen Auge und gebrochenen Rippen einen brutalen Überfall auf seine Farm überlebte.
Group of white South Africans arrive in US after Trump grants refugee status

3 weeks 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.
Addressing Hearing Loss in Late-Life Loneliness and Social Isolation

3 weeks ago | jamanetwork.com | Rachel Savage

Addressing Hearing Loss in Late-Life Loneliness and Social Isolation Hearing Intervention, Social Isolation, and Loneliness Nicholas S. Reed, AuD, PhD; Jinyu Chen, MS; Alison R. Huang, PhD, MPH; James R. Pike, MBA; Michelle Arnold, AuD, PhD; Sheila Burgard, MS; Ziheng Chen, BS; Theresa Chisolm, PhD; David Couper, PhD; Thomas K. M. Cudjoe, MD, MPH, MA; Jennifer A. Deal, PhD; Adele M. Goman, PhD; Nancy W.