The African Union's Minerals Development Center stated that specialist rare earth mines in Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, and South Africa are expected to come online by 2029 and could potentially yield almost 10% of global rare earth supply.
January 01, 2029
high
forecast
Projected increase in global rare earth supply from planned African mining projects.
The U.S. government set the refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 at 7,500 and allocated a majority of those spots for Afrikaners from South Africa who were described by the administration as fleeing government-sponsored race-based discrimination.
January 01, 2026
high
policy
U.S. refugee admissions ceiling and allocation for fiscal year 2026 as stated by the administration.
The 2025 G20 leaders' summit in South Africa was the first G20 summit held on the African continent.
November 23, 2025
high
temporal
Places the 2025 summit in the historical record of G20 host locations.
South Africa was the first African country to hold the G20 rotating presidency, holding the presidency in 2025.
November 20, 2025
high
temporal
A milestone in the G20 rotating presidency history indicating the first time an African nation held the role.
Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended mainly from Dutch colonial settlers and also from French and German colonial settlers who first arrived in the 17th century.
November 10, 2025
high
temporal
Definition and ancestral origins of the Afrikaner population in South Africa.
Afrikaans is a Dutch-derived language that is widely spoken in South Africa and is one of the country's official languages.
November 10, 2025
high
temporal
Linguistic status of the language associated with Afrikaners.
Afrikaners were central to the apartheid system of white minority rule in South Africa from 1948 to 1994, a period that produced decades of hostility between Afrikaners and South Africa's Black majority.
November 10, 2025
high
temporal
Role of Afrikaners in South Africa's apartheid-era governance and its social consequences.
As of 2025, Afrikaners are estimated at about 2.7 million people within South Africa's total population of roughly 62 million.
November 10, 2025
high
temporal
Estimated size of the Afrikaner population relative to the national population.
White residents in South Africa generally have a higher standard of living than Black residents, a socioeconomic disparity that persisted more than three decades after the end of apartheid.
November 07, 2025
medium
temporal
Longstanding racial economic disparities in post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa's Expropriation Act of 2024 authorizes the government to expropriate land for public use and permits in some cases expropriation without compensation; the South African government characterizes the policy as aimed at addressing racial inequities in ownership.
January 01, 2024
high
legal
Summary of legal provisions and government rationale associated with the 2024 expropriation law.
South Africa lodged a case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza in late 2023.
December 01, 2023
high
temporal
Legal action brought by a sovereign state to the ICJ alleging genocide in the context of the Israel–Gaza conflict.
Several countries, including Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya and Colombia, indicated support for South Africa's 2023 case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide.
December 01, 2023
high
temporal
International diplomatic support reported in relation to South Africa's ICJ case alleging genocide.
South Africa has a longstanding official stance of support for the Palestinian cause dating back to Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999), and South African officials have compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to apartheid while Israel rejects that comparison.
May 10, 1994
high
temporal
Historical and ongoing diplomatic positions and rhetoric linking South African anti-apartheid history to its stance on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
UNESCO's anti-racist initiatives in the 1950s focused attention on problems in the United States and South Africa and only began to have a more global approach and impact around 1960.
January 01, 1960
high
temporal
Summarizes the geographic focus and temporal expansion of UNESCO's anti-racist work in the postwar decades.
Apartheid was an institutionalized system of racial segregation in South Africa that began in 1948 and continued until the early 1990s.
January 01, 1948
high
temporal
Defines the South African apartheid era and its approximate time span.
The apartheid system in South Africa enforced racial segregation, prevented the Black majority from voting, and suppressed political dissent.
January 01, 1948
high
historical
Description of the core features and impacts of apartheid-era governance in South Africa.
Afrikaners are an ethnic group in South Africa descended primarily from Dutch settlers and also from French and German immigrants.
high
definitional
Definition of the Afrikaner ethnic group and ancestry.
Apartheid was a system of white minority rule in South Africa.
high
temporal
Defines apartheid as a political and social system in South African history.