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South African rapper AKA, born Kiernan Forbes, passed away on Friday night after he was shot outside of a restaurant in Durban. He was 35 years old. AKA’s parents, Tony and Lynn Forbes, confirmed their son’s death on Saturday in a statement sent to Rolling Stone. “It is with extreme sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our […]
Elon Musk’s father felt like Clint Eastwood while taking out a mob of intruders in 1998. In an interview with The Sun, Errol Musk recalled the 1998 incident, which took place at a rental property he owned in Johannesburg, South Africa. Errol with his daughter, Ali, who was six years old at the time, checking in […]
Two new even more transmissible Omicron subvariants have been found in the United States, Deadline reports. First identified in South Africa, BA.4 and BA.5 were initially recorded on Jan. 10 and Feb. 26, respectively, but have only recently caused a dramatic spike in cases in their country of origin. Abdool Karim, public health expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, […]
A record-settingly massive white diamond nicknamed “The Rock” will soon hit auction, where it’s projected to go for as much as $30 million. The piece—a 228.31 carat pear-shaped diamond that was mined and polished in South Africa more than 20 years ago—is said by Christie’s to be the biggest white diamond to have ever been […]
Ari Lennox has revealed that she wants to be “dropped from the labels” in a recent tweet, explaining that she’s “done and tired.” The singer—who just this week vowed to no longer do interviews or visit South Africa after a podcaster “ambushed and blindsded” her with questions about her sex life—tweeted that she wants to “be […]
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end apartheid in South Africa, died Sunday at 90. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed Tutu’s death in a statement early this morning. “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who […]
The White House has announced that travel bans to eight southern African countries will be lifted. Reuters reports that foreign nationals who traveled to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi will be allowed to enter the U.S. after 12:01 a.m. ET on Dec. 31. Leaders in the region have criticized the […]
The Canadian government is reacting to word of a new COVID-19 variant on the rise in parts of southern Africa with a number of restrictions limiting travel to and from the regions. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatiniall fall under the new travel rules implemented after today’s announcement. This means the Canadian […]
Earlier this month, a woman in South Africa claimed to have broken a world record by giving birth to 10 babies at once. Now, the provincial government says the woman had not even been pregnant recently. BBC reports no hospitals in the Gauteng province have a record of decuplets being born. According to South Africa’s Eyewitness News, […]
A new coronavirus variant from South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, the Associated Press reports. Two cases were identified in South Carolina, and state health officials believe it is almost certain that there are more people with the mutated strain who have not yet been confirmed. Both adults who tested […]
