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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Saratov region Governor Roman Busargin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

South Africa says Putin will skip a summit next month because of his ICC arrest warrant

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Photo host Agency RIA Novosti, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, not in photo, during their talks after a meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2023. South Africa's president said Tuesday, July 18, 2023 that arresting Putin — should he show up at an economic summit next month in Johannesburg — would amount to a “declaration of war” by his country. (Ramil Sitdikov/Photo host Agency RIA Novosti via AP)

South Africa Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa says arresting Putin if he comes to Johannesburg would be ‘war’

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin answers journalists' questions about the grain deal in Moscow, Russia, on July 13, 2023. Putin said that the Wagner private military company "simply doesn't exist" as a legal entity, in comments adding to the series of often bizarre twists that have followed the group's abortive revolt last month — the most serious threat to Putin's 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn’t want to have to arrest him

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to school children before a political rally of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Soweto township in Johannesburg, on June 14, 2013. South Africa's Constitutional Court upheld Thursday, July 13, 2023, a ruling that Zuma's early release from prison on medical parole was improper and the former leader should go back to jail to serve the remaining 13 months of his 15-month sentence. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

South Africa deploys army over burning of trucks, braces for unrest over ex-president’s court case

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - Australia's Sam Kerr, top left, jumps for the ball with Jamaica's Khadija Shaw, center, during the Women's World Cup Group C soccer match at Stade des Alpes stadium in Grenoble, France, June 18, 2019. Players from the Jamaican women’s national team took to social media on Thursday, June 15, 2023, to decry their federation’s support of the team and its preparation heading into the Women’s World Cup next month. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

World Cup showcases inequity within the women’s game

By Anne M. Peterson - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, chats with South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor during their binational commission in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

U.S., South Africa work to ease fallout over Russia

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

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Residents watch police activity in the Angelo Informal Settlement, in Boksburg, South Africa, Thursday July 6, 2023. South African police say at least 16 people, including three children, have died from a leak of a toxic nitrate gas that was being used by illegal miners to process gold. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Death toll from a South Africa gas leak blamed on illegal gold processing has risen to 17

By Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Refiloe Jane, captain for the South Africa's Women's World Cup, right, sits with teammates as they attend a joint media briefing in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. A foundation set up by African soccer president and billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe stepped in Wednesday to resolve a pay dispute between South Africa's Women's World Cup players and their national association, ensuring they will get on a plane and head to the tournament in Australia and New Zealand. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa Women’s World Cup players given more money after standoff over pay disparity

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE — Then former African National Congress (ANC) treasurer general and now South African Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, center, walks out following a meeting of the ANC's national executive committee, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday Dec. 2, 2022. Mashatile's office said Tuesday, July 4, 2023 that a video showing armed police assaulting a man on a freeway until he lay motionless were part of the security team protecting Mashaile. There are no indications that Mashatile was present during the incident. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Outrage erupts in South Africa over video of deputy president’s security officers stomping on man

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. A South African public watchdog has cleared Ramaphosa of wrongdoing in the scandal involving the theft of $580 000 in U.S. currency that was stashed in a sofa at his Phala Phala game farm in 2020. (Emmanuel Durand, Pool via AP, File)

South African president cleared of wrongdoing in scandal over $580,000 in cash stolen from his farm

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, speaks with South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Naledi Pandor, right, as they meet in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

German foreign minister poses challenge to South Africa over its position on Russian war effort

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the South African Government Communications and Information Services (GCIS) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and other delegates travel on a train towards Kyiv, from Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, June 15, 2023. Ramaphosa is taking part in the African Peace Mission aimed at a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. (South African Government Communication and Information Services via AP)

On Ukraine-Russia trip, South African leader’s delegation stuck at Polish airport over arms permits

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

FILE - A view of the Russian vessel, Lady R, is docked at the Simon's Town Naval Base near Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked secretly at a naval base in December. The allegations were made this month by the United States' ambassador to South Africa, who said he was sure that weapons and ammunition were loaded onto the Russian-flagged cargo ship Lady R when it docked at the Simon's Town naval base near Cape Town. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. lawmakers ask Biden administration to punish South Africa for alleged support for Russia

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Former African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Ace Magashule appears for a bail hearing inside the magistrates court in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Nov. 13, 2020, where he was charged with corruption. The ANC expelled Magashule on Monday, June 12, 2023, for misconduct and other breaches of party rules. (AP Photo/File)

South Africa’s ruling party expels former top official accused of corruption

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

A young girl carrying an empty water bottle through a flooded street caused by an overflowing water reservoir in Hamanskraal, Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, May 26, 2023. Health authorities are yet to confirm the exact source of the cholera outbreak, but poor wastewater management and local government instability in South Africa's capital city have been blamed for the situation. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) **FILE**

Electricity crisis spurs spread of cholera in South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gestures while speaking during a joint news conference with Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources of Mozambique Carlos Alberto Fortes Mesquita following their talks in Maputo capital city of Mozambique, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia, China foreign ministers set for BRICS meet in South Africa with war in Ukraine on agenda

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the Business Russia organisation at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 26, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Possible Putin trip in spotlight as Russia, China foreign ministers set for meeting in South Africa

By Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answers questions in parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked secretly at a naval base in December. The allegations were made this month by the United States' ambassador to South Africa, who said he was sure that weapons and ammunition were loaded onto the Russian-flagged cargo ship Lady R when it docked at the Simon's Town naval base near Cape Town. (AP Photo, File)

South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, right, during a plenary session at the Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia on Oct. 24, 2019. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, has accused South Africa of providing weapons to Russia saying the U.S. government was certain that weapons were loaded onto a cargo ship that docked secretly at a naval base near the city of Cape Town for three days in December. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

South Africa under more scrutiny over Russian ship as ruling ANC says it would ‘welcome’ Putin

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press