Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 22, 2025 In a ritual of near farcical folly, the UN General Assembly has elected fourteen new members to join the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. The otherwise low-key annual ballot raises political hypocrisy to a heightened level. These new Council members including countries like Angola, Egypt, Iraq, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 21, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump’s meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday began cordially, but quickly shifted gears after Rampaphosa denied there was an ongoing “geoncide” against white farmers, or Afrikaners, in his country. A reporter asked the South African leader “what […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump on Friday ceased all U.S. funding to South Africa and opened a pathway to fast-track U.S. citizenship for farmers who are having their land confiscated by the South African government. “South Africa is being terrible, plus, to long time Farmers in the country. […]
FPI / August 30, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Communist Party leader Xi Jinping was so preoccupied with internal conditions back home in China that he skipped out on a major speech last week at the BRICS summit in South Africa, observers surmised. With the faltering economy seen challenging his leader-for-life status, Xi left it to Commerce Minister […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2023 Saudi Arabia and Iran are among six countries invited to join BRICS as new members next year. The trading bloc BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has openly stated its desire to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. With the exception […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2023 You can’t make this stuff up. At the same time Big Media in the U.S. were warning that Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social, saying “If you go after me, I’m coming after you,” amounted to a threat, The New York Times said that a chant at a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 31, 2023 At least 100 people have been killed in rioting in South Africa following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. “Rioters have plundered shops and entire shopping malls. When they run out out of normal goods, they steal livestock. When it’s too heavy to carry by hand, they bring […]
FPI / February 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher South Africa, China and Russia will hold their second trilateral naval exercise from Feb. 17 to 27, a clear victory for China’s program of militarizing its quasi-alliance structures that could soon create an axis for Africa-South American military cooperation. South Africa abstained from the March 2022 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 6, 2022 NAIROBI — A South African man who was hired as a content moderator for Facebook in Kenya says he is “living a horror movie” after being subjected, without being forewarned, to graphic violent content and a toxic working environment. Daniel Motaung has sued Meta, stating that he and his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 3, 2022 In November, the South Africa-based pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare got a licensing deal to package and sell Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and distribute it across Africa. That facility is now on the brink of shutting down. Why? Because it has received zero orders. Since Africa was initially left […]
