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A patient eyes are tested for lenses to be made for a new pair of glasses outside the Phelophepa eye clinic carriage, in Tembisa east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

How a traveling ‘health train’ has become an essential source of free care in South Africa

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party leader John Steenhuisen waves to supporters in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 17, 2024, at the party's manifesto launch ahead of the 2024 general elections. Steenhuisen has promised to "rescue" South Africa from what it says is the corruption and mismanagement of the governing Africa National Congress but has never come close to winning a national election. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) **FILE**

Mandela’s party stumbles as election approaches in South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Defending champion Eric Lucas, right, serves an uppercut to South Africa's Dingaan Thobela, left, during the WBC super middleweight championship on Nov. 30, 2001 in Montreal, Canada. Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as "The Rose of Soweto," has died. He was 57. (AP Photo/Paul Chiasson, File)

Boxer Dingaan Thobela, ‘The Rose of Soweto,’ dies aged 57

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Anton Koen, a former police officer who now runs a private security firm that specializes in tracking and recovering hijacked and stolen vehicles, prepares to go out on patrol east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Experts have warned that the South African police are losing the battle against crime and that has led those citizens who can afford it, to turn to a booming private security industry. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

In this Sept. 8, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius wins gold in the men's 400-meter T44 final at the 2012 Paralympics in London. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was convicted of a charge comparable to third-degree murder for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013. He has been in prison since late 2014. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

A searing debate of soaring crime as a celebrated murderer walks free

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa listens during the BRICS group of emerging economies three-day summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Ramaphosa says his country has filed a referral to the International Criminal Court for an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. The move comes as South African lawmakers on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, were expected to debate a motion calling for the closure of the Israeli Embassy in South Africa and the cutting of all diplomatic ties with the country until it agrees to a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

As in U.S., Middle East chaos sparks domestic divisions in South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa listens during the BRICS group of emerging economies three-day summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Ramaphosa says his country has filed a referral to the International Criminal Court for an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. The move comes as South African lawmakers on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, were expected to debate a motion calling for the closure of the Israeli Embassy in South Africa and the cutting of all diplomatic ties with the country until it agrees to a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

South African divisions show widening impact of Middle East clashes

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Medics stand by the covered bodies of victims of a deadly blaze in downtown Johannesburg, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. An inquiry has opened into the horrific apartment building fire that killed at least 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa's richest city .(AP Photo/Jerome Delay/File)

South Africa begins an inquiry into a building fire that killed 76 people in Johannesburg in August

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Medics work at the scene of a deadly blaze in downtown Johannesburg Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Dozens died when a fire ripped through a multistory building in Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city, emergency services said Thursday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South African government announces official inquiry into deadly Johannesburg building fire

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Johannesburg is seen from the sky, Oct. 18, 2009. Johannesburg has established itself as one of the best cities in the world, South Africa's economic hub where careers are made and dreams come true. But over the last few years, that image and reputation has been changing. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

A building marked by fire and death shows the decay of South Africa’s ‘city of gold’

By Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Fire fighters work on the scene of a deadly blaze in downtown Johannesburg Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Scores of people died when a fire ripped through a multi-story building in Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, emergency services said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Building fire in Johannesburg kills at least 73 people, many of them homeless, authorities say

By Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures as he meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on June 19, 2023. Xi will attend next week's summit of the BRICS nations in Johannesburg, to be followed by a state visit to South Africa, the Foreign Ministry said Friday, AUg. 18, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s Putin stays away over arrest warrant as leaders of emerging economies meet in South Africa

By Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, receives the order of South Africa from President Cyril Ramaphosa at Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Jinping has arrived for a state visit in South Africa where the two countries are expected to strengthen ties ahead of the BRICS summit starting in Johannesburg on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

BRICS leaders holding summit in South Africa, but Putin won’t be there in person

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing. China Sept. 3, 2018. Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit of the BRICS bloc in South Africa this week. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia, China look to advance agendas at BRICS summit of developing countries in South Africa

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE — South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa attends a working session with representatives of banks of the "Finance in Common" network during the New Global Financial Pact Summit, Thursday, June 22, 2023 in Paris. Seven opposition parties in South Africa have reached an agreement to form a coalition in a bid to unseat the ruling African National Congress if it fails to win a majority in next year's general election. The parties include main opposition party the Democratic Alliance and a string of smaller parties. (Emmanuel Durand, Pool via AP, File)

In a bid to unseat the long-ruling ANC, 7 South African parties reach a coalition agreement

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press