South Africa

/u201cHaving a species that is data deficient annoys me,\" said Pietersen. \"I\u2019ve always loved the species that others wouldn\u2019t study because they\u2019re harder to find or obscure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research trip was two years in the making after they registered at least six applications for permits to go, Pietersen said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.667\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//28//76//88//808x539_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg/" alt=\"A Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko, a type of lizard that previously hadn&#39;t been recorded since it was discovered in 1991.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/640x427_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/1920x1281_cmsv2_30ff8c56-84bc-5484-bd71-9078a89a9d34-9287688.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko, a type of lizard that previously hadn&#39;t been recorded since it was discovered in 1991.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Endangered Wildlife Trust via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>They were dropped off on the top of one of the canyon's landmark circular rocky outcrops, which have sheer cliffs more than 100 metres high that can't easily be climbed and where the geckos were thought most likely to be. It was the exact same outcrop where the geckos were found in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Pietersen and Davies only had three days camping on the outcrop to find the geckos, which are around 8 to 9 centimetres long when fully grown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9281700,9274984\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//12//banana-farmers-are-battling-daily-with-climate-change-warns-report-urging-leaders-not-to-s/">Banana farmers are \u2018battling daily\u2019 with climate change, warns report urging leaders not to slip up<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//09//how-poaching-caused-over-100-vultures-to-die-in-mass-poisoning-in-south-african-national-p/">How poaching caused over 100 vultures to die in mass poisoning in South African national park<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cAnd when we did, we were elated to say the least,\u201d said Pietersen. He said they saw 20 to 30 specimens and captured and photographed seven, giving the world a glimpse of a lost gecko three decades in the making.<\/p>\n<h2>The fifth animal rediscovered in recent years<\/h2>\n<p>The Endangered Wildlife Trust said the data they collected, including tissue samples, should allow them to confirm it is a distinct species.<\/p>\n<p>The trust said the gecko was the fifth animal they had rediscovered in recent years. A mole that lives in sand dunes <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//11//29//more-precious-than-gold-how-a-long-lost-mole-was-rediscovered-with-the-help-of-a-border-co/">was found in 2021<\/strong><\/a> after having not been seen for more than 80 years, and a butterfly, a lizard and a frog species have also been found again in the last four years after being lost to conservationists for decades.<\/p>\n<p>They all show how much there is still to learn about the world's biodiversity, the Endangered Wildlife Trust said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1747292556,"updatedAt":1747300383,"publishedAt":1747293608,"firstPublishedAt":1747293608,"lastPublishedAt":1747300383,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/76\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e8de32db-2050-5a2d-a24c-dc5ea00ea8d4-9287688.jpg","altText":"Researcher Darren Pietersen holds a Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko.","caption":"Researcher Darren Pietersen holds a Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Endangered Wildlife Trust via 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Imray","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"nature","urlSafeValue":"nature","title":"Nature","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/nature\/nature"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"green","verticals":[{"id":8,"slug":"green","urlSafeValue":"green","title":"Green"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":8,"slug":"green","urlSafeValue":"green","title":"Green"},"themes":[{"id":"nature","urlSafeValue":"nature","title":"Nature","url":"\/green\/nature"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":33,"urlSafeValue":"nature","title":"Nature"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":257,"urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","url":"\/news\/africa\/south-africa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/green\/2025\/05\/15\/scientists-thought-this-gecko-was-extinct-or-didnt-exist-now-its-been-rediscovered-after-3","lastModified":1747300383},{"id":2800988,"cid":9286705,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"S.AFRICA RAMAPHOSA AFRIKANERS US","daletPyramidId":1496102,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"South Africa's President Ramaphosa says Afrikaners resettling in US are 'cowards'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"'Cowards': South Africa's Ramaphosa slams Afrikaners resettling in US","titleListing2":"South Africa's President Ramaphosa says Afrikaners resettling in US are 'cowards'","leadin":"The Trump administration has been criticised for granting refugee status to Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, over people fleeing war and famine.","summary":"The Trump administration has been criticised for granting refugee status to Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, over people fleeing war and famine.","keySentence":"","url":"south-africas-president-ramaphosa-says-afrikaners-resettling-in-us-are-cowards","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/05\/14\/south-africas-president-ramaphosa-says-afrikaners-resettling-in-us-are-cowards","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised a group of 59 white minority Afrikaners who have resettled in the US under a controversial refugee scheme, labelling them \"cowards\". \n\nThe white South Africans arrived in the US on Monday after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration, which says they face racial discrimination at home.\n\nSouth Africa's government has strongly disputed Washington's claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted. \n\nRamaphosa said the group of Afrikaners were relocating to the US because they were not in favour of efforts aimed at addressing the country's challenges and apartheid past.\n\n\"As South Africans, we are resilient,\" Ramaphosa said at an agricultural event in the Free State province on Monday. \n\n\"We don't run away from our problems. We must stay here and solve our problems. When you run away you are a coward, and that's a real cowardly act.\"\n\n\"I can bet you that they will be back soon because there is no country like South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe Trump administration has upended US refugee admissions policy, meaning that virtually all people fleeing famine and war no longer have a chance of resettlement there.\n\nYet it has made an exception for Afrikaners \u2014 a white ethnic minority that created and maintained South Africa's brutal apartheid system from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. The move has been widely criticised by rights groups and refugee advocates, who say that the Afrikaners are neither victims of discrimination nor vulnerable. \n\nIn response to questions on Monday by reporters about why Afrikaners were being helped over victims of famine and conflict elsewhere in Africa, US President Donald Trump said that the ethnic minority were being killed. \n\n\"It's a genocide that\u2019s taking place,\" Trump said, without providing any evidence. He stressed that he planned to address the issue with South Africa's leadership next week.\n\nSpeaking at a business conference in Ivory Coast earlier on Monday, Ramaphosa said he had recently told Trump during a phone call that the US assessment \"not true\".\n\n\"I told him that what you are being told by those people who are opposed to transformation back in South Africa is not true,\" Ramaphosa said.\n\nThe Trump administration has falsely claimed white South Africans are having their land taken away by the government under a new expropriation law that promotes \"racially discriminatory property confiscation\". No such land has been expropriated.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised a group of 59 white minority Afrikaners who have resettled in the US under a controversial refugee scheme, labelling them \"cowards\". <\/p>\n<p>The white South Africans arrived in the US on Monday after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration, which says they face racial discrimination at home.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa's government has strongly disputed Washington's claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted. <\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said the group of Afrikaners were relocating to the US because they were not in favour of efforts aimed at addressing the country's challenges and apartheid past.<\/p>\n<p>\"As South Africans, we are resilient,\" Ramaphosa said at an agricultural event in the Free State province on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\"We don't run away from our problems. We must stay here and solve our problems. When you run away you are a coward, and that's a real cowardly act.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I can bet you that they will be back soon because there is no country like South Africa,\" he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//28//67//05//808x539_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg/" alt=\"Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/384x256_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/640x427_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/750x500_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/828x552_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/1080x720_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/1200x800_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/1920x1281_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The Trump administration has upended US refugee admissions policy, meaning that virtually all people fleeing famine and war no longer have a chance of resettlement there.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it has made an exception for Afrikaners \u2014 a white ethnic minority that created and maintained South Africa's brutal apartheid system from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. The move has been widely criticised by rights groups and refugee advocates, who say that the Afrikaners are neither victims of discrimination nor vulnerable. <\/p>\n<p>In response to questions on Monday by reporters about why Afrikaners were being helped over victims of famine and conflict elsewhere in Africa, US President Donald Trump said that the ethnic minority were being killed. <\/p>\n<p>\"It's a genocide that\u2019s taking place,\" Trump said, without providing any evidence. He stressed that he planned to address the issue with South Africa's leadership next week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9286148,9285912\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//05//13//trump-wants-to-hear-how-allies-plan-to-boost-defence-spending-nato-envoy-says/">Trump wants to hear how allies plan to boost defence spending, NATO envoy says<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//05//13//show-us-something-special-trump-says-to-syria-as-he-agrees-to-lift-raft-of-sanctions/">'Show us something special,' Trump says to Syria as he agrees to lift raft of sanctions<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Speaking at a business conference in Ivory Coast earlier on Monday, Ramaphosa said he had recently told Trump during a phone call that the US assessment \"not true\".<\/p>\n<p>\"I told him that what you are being told by those people who are opposed to transformation back in South Africa is not true,\" Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has falsely claimed white South Africans are having their land taken away by the government under a new expropriation law that promotes \"racially discriminatory property confiscation\". No such land has been expropriated.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1747220281,"updatedAt":1747224629,"publishedAt":1747224589,"firstPublishedAt":1747224589,"lastPublishedAt":1747224589,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6cc05c30-26c2-571f-b65e-f5d5682c916b-9286705.jpg","altText":"FILE: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives at Kazan International Airport in in Kazan, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024","caption":"FILE: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives at Kazan International Airport in in Kazan, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Kirill Zykov\/Photo hosting agency brics-russia2024.ru, www.brics-russia2024.ru","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":946,"height":532},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/28\/67\/05\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_78db5562-7d5e-5e41-92a5-fe83e28ea5ca-9286705.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3238,"urlSafeValue":"guilbert","title":"Kieran Guilbert","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7889,"slug":"south-africa","urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","titleRaw":"South Africa"},{"id":13025,"slug":"cyril-ramaphosa","urlSafeValue":"cyril-ramaphosa","title":"Cyril Ramaphosa","titleRaw":"Cyril Ramaphosa"},{"id":11900,"slug":"donald-trump","urlSafeValue":"donald-trump","title":"Donald Trump","titleRaw":"Donald Trump"},{"id":13363,"slug":"united-states","urlSafeValue":"united-states","title":"United States ","titleRaw":"United States "}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":1},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2844939},{"id":2846170}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":257,"urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","url":"\/news\/africa\/south-africa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/05\/14\/south-africas-president-ramaphosa-says-afrikaners-resettling-in-us-are-cowards","lastModified":1747224589},{"id":2799428,"cid":9278788,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"CULTURE - RIP KOYO KOUOH","daletPyramidId":1462747,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Art Biennale curator, dies suddenly aged 58","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Art Biennale curator, dies suddenly aged 58","titleListing2":"Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Art Biennale curator, dies suddenly aged 58","leadin":"The Swiss-Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh has died at the age of 58. She was the first African woman invited to lead the Venice Art Biennale.","summary":"The Swiss-Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh has died at the age of 58. She was the first African woman invited to lead the Venice Art Biennale.","keySentence":"","url":"koyo-kouoh-2026-venice-art-biennale-curator-dies-suddenly-aged-58","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/05\/11\/koyo-kouoh-2026-venice-art-biennale-curator-dies-suddenly-aged-58","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Koyo Kouoh, the curator of the 2026 Venice Art Biennale, has died at age 58, her home institution in South Africa said in an Instagram post Saturday.\n\nThe Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in South Africa confirmed the news overnight but gave no cause. The Biennale said it was \"deeply saddened and dismayed\" to learn of her death.\n\nKouoh was the first African woman asked to helm the Venice Art Biennale. Born in Cameroon in 1967, she was invited to curate the 2026 edition of the Biennale in December. A leading figure in promoting Pan-Africanism throughout the art world, Kouoh had been executive director and chief curator at Zeitz since 2019.\n\nAppointed in December 2024 by the board of directors of La Biennale, Kouoh worked \"with passion, intellectual rigor and vision on the conception and development of the Biennale Arte 2026,\" the Venice arts institution said.\n\nThe presentation of the exhibition's title and theme was due to take place in Venice on May 20.\n\nKouoh also increased her reputation by curating the pioneering 2022 exhibition \"When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting.\" The show's title was inspired by the 2019 Netflix miniseries When They See Us by African-American director Ava DuVernay, which focuses on how Black youth are seen as potential criminals and thus as a threat. \n\n\"Her passing leaves an immense void in the world of contemporary art and in the international community of artists, curators, and scholars who had the privilege of knowing and admiring her extraordinary human and intellectual commitment,\" the Biennale said.\n\nIt extended \"its deepest sympathies and affection\" to Kouoh's family and friends, and \"all those who shared with her a journey of research and critical thought on contemporary art.\"\n\nIn a statement, Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her \"deepest condolences\" for Kouoh's \"premature and sudden passing,\" noting it \"leaves a void in the world of contemporary art.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Koyo Kouoh, the curator of the 2026 Venice Art Biennale, has died at age 58, her home institution in South Africa said in an Instagram post Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in South Africa confirmed the news overnight but gave no cause. The Biennale said it was \"deeply saddened and dismayed\" to learn of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Kouoh was the first African woman asked to helm the Venice Art Biennale. Born in Cameroon in 1967, she was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//03//koyo-kouoh-appointed-curator-of-2026-venice-biennale-and-becomes-first-african-woman-in-ro/">invited to curate the 2026 edition<\/strong><\/a> of the Biennale in December. A leading figure in promoting Pan-Africanism throughout the art world, Kouoh had been executive director and chief curator at Zeitz since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed in December 2024 by the board of directors of La Biennale, Kouoh worked \"with passion, intellectual rigor and vision on the conception and development of the Biennale Arte 2026,\" the Venice arts institution said.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation of the exhibition's title and theme was due to take place in Venice on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Kouoh also increased her reputation by curating the pioneering 2022 exhibition \"When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting.\" The show's title was inspired by the 2019 Netflix miniseries <em>When They See Us<\/em> by African-American director <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//09//07//venice-2023-review-origin-ava-duvernays-exploration-of-the-global-systems-of-oppression/">Ava DuVernay<\/strong><\/a>, which focuses on how Black youth are seen as potential criminals and thus as a threat. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8521154\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//25//when-we-see-us-swiss-museum-showcases-100-years-of-black-figurative-painting/">/"When We See Us\": Swiss museum showcases 100 years of Black figurative painting<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6662804171494786\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//27//87//88//808x539_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg/" alt=\"Koyo Kouoh was the first African woman to be invited to curator the Venice Arts Biennale \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/640x426_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/1920x1279_cmsv2_7709baba-0716-5df0-9a70-1a1fc9fe9415-9278788.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Koyo Kouoh was the first African woman to be invited to curator the Venice Arts Biennale <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Venice Biennale <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Her passing leaves an immense void in the world of contemporary art and in the international community of artists, curators, and scholars who had the privilege of knowing and admiring her extraordinary human and intellectual commitment,\" the Biennale said.<\/p>\n<p>It extended \"its deepest sympathies and affection\" to Kouoh's family and friends, and \"all those who shared with her a journey of research and critical thought on contemporary art.\"<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her \"deepest condolences\" for Kouoh's \"premature and sudden passing,\" noting it \"leaves a void in the world of contemporary art.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1746955220,"updatedAt":1746959892,"publishedAt":1746958383,"firstPublishedAt":1746958383,"lastPublishedAt":1746958383,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/87\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_760ecd5f-2b30-5662-bd43-7c6147188511-9278788.jpg","altText":"Cameroonian-born curator Koyo Kouoh at the New Africa-France Summit in Montpellier, France, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021","caption":"Cameroonian-born curator Koyo Kouoh at the New Africa-France Summit in Montpellier, France, Friday, Oct. 8, 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than 100 vultures poisoned in South Africa national park","titleListing2":"How poaching caused over 100 vultures to die in mass poisoning in South African national park","leadin":"Vultures are key to wildlife ecosystems because of the clean-up work they do, feeding on the carcasses of dead animals.","summary":"Vultures are key to wildlife ecosystems because of the clean-up work they do, feeding on the carcasses of dead animals.","keySentence":"","url":"how-poaching-caused-over-100-vultures-to-die-in-mass-poisoning-in-south-african-national-p","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/05\/09\/how-poaching-caused-over-100-vultures-to-die-in-mass-poisoning-in-south-african-national-p","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At least 123 vultures died in South Africa's flagship national park after eating the carcass of a poisoned elephant, park authorities and an animal conservation group said on Thursday.\n\nThe elephant was reportedly laced with agricultural pesticides by poachers.\n\nAnother 83 vultures that were rescued from the site and transported for treatment by helicopter or a special vulture ambulance are still recovering.\n\nThe mass poisoning was one of the worst seen in the famous Kruger National Park in northern South Africa, said SANParks, the national parks agency.\n\nVultures are especially vulnerable to poisoning\n\nVultures are key to wildlife ecosystems because of the clean-up work they do, feeding on the carcasses of dead animals. \n\nBut that also makes them especially vulnerable to poisoning by poachers, either intentionally or as a result of the killing of other animals. \n\nHundreds of vultures typically feed on a single carcass.\n\nThe elephant had been poisoned by poachers in a remote part of the huge park to harvest its body parts for the illegal wildlife trade, SANParks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust said.\n\nMany vulture species are endangered in Africa because of poisoning and other threats. The affected birds in Kruger included Cape vultures, endangered lappet-faced vultures and critically-endangered white-backed and hooded vultures.\n\nRangers face a daily battle against poachers\n\n\"This horrific incident is part of a broader crisis unfolding across southern Africa: the escalating use of poisons in wildlife poaching,\" SANParks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust said in their joint statement. \n\n\"Poachers increasingly use agricultural toxins to target high-value species.\"\n\nThe Kruger National Park covers approximately 20,000 square kilometres and is nearly twice the size of small countries like Jamaica and Qatar.\n\nRangers say they face a daily battle to guard species like rhinos, elephants and lions from poachers.\n\nVulture conservation organisation Vulpro, which was not involved in the rescue, said the poisoning came at the start of the breeding season. \n\nMany other birds that weren't found at the site could still be affected, it added.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 123 vultures died in South Africa's flagship national park after eating the carcass of a poisoned elephant, park authorities and an animal conservation group said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant was reportedly laced with agricultural pesticides by poachers.<\/p>\n<p>Another 83 vultures that were rescued from the site and transported for treatment by helicopter or a special vulture ambulance are still recovering.<\/p>\n<p>The mass poisoning was one of the worst seen in the famous Kruger National Park in northern South Africa, said SANParks, the national parks agency.<\/p>\n<h2>Vultures are especially vulnerable to poisoning<\/h2>\n<p>Vultures are key to wildlife ecosystems because of the clean-up work they do, feeding on the carcasses of dead animals. <\/p>\n<p>But that also makes them especially vulnerable to poisoning by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//09//meet-the-ex-poachers-restoring-the-indonesian-coral-reefs-they-destroyed/">poachers, either intentionally or as a result of the killing of other animals. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of vultures typically feed on a single carcass.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant had been poisoned by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//01//catching-poachers-was-almost-impossible-until-this-dutch-company-invented-a-new-type-of-ca/">poachers in a remote part of the huge park to harvest its body parts for the illegal wildlife trade, SANParks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust said.<\/p>\n<p>Many vulture species are endangered in Africa because of poisoning and other threats. The affected birds in Kruger included Cape vultures, endangered lappet-faced vultures and critically-endangered white-backed and hooded vultures.<\/p>\n<h2>Rangers face a daily battle against poachers<\/h2>\n<p>\"This horrific incident is part of a broader crisis unfolding across southern Africa: the escalating use of poisons in wildlife poaching,\" SANParks and the Endangered Wildlife Trust said in their joint statement. <\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//09//05//zimbabwe-is-moving-2500-wild-animals-to-rescue-them-from-climate-change-and-drought/">Poachers increasingly use agricultural toxins to target high-value species.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Kruger National Park covers approximately 20,000 square kilometres and is nearly twice the size of small countries like Jamaica and Qatar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9254894,9234030\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//03//turned-into-mere-commodities-inside-south-africas-illegal-leopard-trade/"> \u2018Turned into mere commodities\u2019: Inside South Africa\u2019s illegal leopard trade<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//27//wildlife-tv-is-taking-off-in-europe-these-are-the-most-captivating-livestreams-to-watch-no/">Wildlife TV is taking off in Europe. These are the most captivating livestreams to watch now<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Rangers say they face a daily battle to guard species like <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//06//poachers-have-killed-more-than-100-rhinos-in-south-africa-this-year-most-of-them-in-nation/">rhinos, elephants and lions from poachers.<\/p>\n<p>Vulture conservation organisation Vulpro, which was not involved in the rescue, said the poisoning came at the start of the breeding season. <\/p>\n<p>Many other birds that weren't found at the site could still be affected, it added.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1746789184,"updatedAt":1746803816,"publishedAt":1746799230,"firstPublishedAt":1746799230,"lastPublishedAt":1746799256,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/27\/49\/84\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c0e0b42c-8cab-58c9-b090-034ceb68204c-9274984.jpg","altText":"Vultures are key to the ecosystem.","caption":"Vultures 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AP RHINOS POACHING SA","daletPyramidId":1403326,"channels":[{"id":14},{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Poachers have killed more than 100 rhinos in South Africa this year, most of them in national parks","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poachers have killed more than 100 rhinos in South Africa this year","titleListing2":"Poachers have killed more than 100 rhinos in South Africa this year, most of them in national parks","leadin":"South Africa has the largest rhino population in the world, with an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 animals.","summary":"South Africa has the largest rhino population in the world, with an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 animals.","keySentence":"","url":"poachers-have-killed-more-than-100-rhinos-in-south-africa-this-year-most-of-them-in-nation","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/05\/06\/poachers-have-killed-more-than-100-rhinos-in-south-africa-this-year-most-of-them-in-nation","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poachers in South Africa killed more than 100 rhinos in the first three months of this year, most of them inside national parks, highlighting an ongoing battle to protect one of the best-known endangered species.\n\nSouth African Environment Minister Dion George announced the figures Monday and said that of the 103 rhinos killed between 1 January and 31 March, 65 were poached in national parks.\n\nThe average of more than one rhino killed a day is in line with last year's count and \u201ca stark reminder of the relentless threat to our wildlife,\u201d George said.\n\nWho is killing South Africa's rhinos?\n\nSouth Africa has the largest rhino population in the world, with an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 animals, according to conservation groups. That includes black and white rhinos.\n\nBlack rhinos are only found in the wild in Africa and are listed as critically endangered, with around 6,400 left, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Around 2,000 are in South Africa.\n\nSouth African authorities have focused in recent years on criminal syndicates they believe are behind much of the country's rhino poaching.\n\nThe environment ministry hailed a conviction last year of what it called a poaching \u201ckingpin\u201d from Mozambique. \n\nSimon Ernesto Valoi was sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Mozambique court for running an operation poaching rhinos in South Africa's huge Kruger National Park, which borders Mozambique.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poachers in South Africa killed more than 100 rhinos in the first three months of this year, most of them inside national parks, highlighting an ongoing battle to protect one of the best-known <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//04//saved-from-extinction-the-iberian-lynx-now-faces-an-uncertain-future-in-spain/">endangered species<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>South African Environment Minister Dion George announced the figures Monday and said that of the 103 rhinos killed between 1 January and 31 March, 65 were <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//06//29//criminals-stole-hundreds-of-rare-cacti-from-chile-now-an-italian-ngo-is-suing-the-suspects/">poached in national parks.<\/p>\n<p>The average of more than one rhino killed a day is in line with last year's count and \u201ca stark reminder of the relentless threat to our wildlife,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is killing South Africa's rhinos?<\/h2>\n<p>South Africa has the largest rhino population in the world, with an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 animals, according to conservation groups. That includes black and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//09//07//2000-white-rhinos-put-up-for-auction-will-be-released-as-part-of-worlds-biggest-rewilding-/">white rhinos<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Black rhinos are only found in the wild in Africa and are listed as critically endangered, with around 6,400 left, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Around 2,000 are in South Africa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9254894,9255842\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//03//turned-into-mere-commodities-inside-south-africas-illegal-leopard-trade/"> \u2018Turned into mere commodities\u2019: Inside South Africa\u2019s illegal leopard trade<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//04//saved-from-extinction-the-iberian-lynx-now-faces-an-uncertain-future-in-spain/">Saved from extinction, the Iberian lynx now faces an uncertain future in Spain<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//05//03//turned-into-mere-commodities-inside-south-africas-illegal-leopard-trade/">South African<\/strong><\/a> authorities have focused in recent years on criminal syndicates they believe are behind much of the country's rhino poaching.<\/p>\n<p>The environment ministry hailed a conviction last year of what it called a poaching \u201ckingpin\u201d from Mozambique. <\/p>\n<p>Simon Ernesto Valoi was sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Mozambique court for running an operation poaching rhinos in South Africa's huge Kruger National Park, which borders Mozambique.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1746516575,"updatedAt":1746524200,"publishedAt":1746517913,"firstPublishedAt":1746517913,"lastPublishedAt":1746517913,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Denis Farrell, File","altText":"A rhino, front, recovers from a tranquilizer, after a hole was drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in Limpopo. 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Africa","url":"\/news\/africa\/south-africa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/green\/2025\/05\/06\/poachers-have-killed-more-than-100-rhinos-in-south-africa-this-year-most-of-them-in-nation","lastModified":1746517913},{"id":2794990,"cid":9254894,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"GREEN LEOPARDS ILLEGAL WILDLIFE","daletPyramidId":1373197,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":" \u2018Turned into mere commodities\u2019: Inside South Africa\u2019s illegal leopard trade","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Inside South Africa\u2019s burgeoning illegal leopard trade","titleListing2":" \u2018Turned into mere commodities\u2019: Inside South Africa\u2019s illegal leopard trade","leadin":"On International Leopard Day, FOUR PAWS warns how leopards are threatened by their commercialisation.","summary":"On International Leopard Day, FOUR PAWS warns how leopards are threatened by their commercialisation.","keySentence":"","url":"turned-into-mere-commodities-inside-south-africas-illegal-leopard-trade","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/05\/03\/turned-into-mere-commodities-inside-south-africas-illegal-leopard-trade","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Like many other big cat species, leopards are severely threatened by commercialisation.\u00a0\n\nAlive or dead, they are traded as commodities to satisfy the growing demand for exotic pets, or for their bones, skulls, and skins to be used in traditional medicine, luxury products, or trophies.\n\nOn International Leopard Day, 3 May, global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS is shining a spotlight on the exploitation of leopards in the global big cat trade.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s tragic to see how these majestic creatures have turned into mere commodities,\u201d says Vanessa Amoroso, head of wild animals in trade at FOUR PAWS.\n\nLeopards are being killed as substitutes for tigers\u00a0\u00a0\n\nWith the growing international demand for tigers, other big cat species like leopards are increasingly being targeted by poachers and wildlife traffickers, say FOUR PAWS.\u00a0\n\nPurposely mislabelled as coming from \u201ctigers\u201d, bones, teeth and other body parts are traded in wildlife markets in Asia to become traditional medicine, luxurious accessories, trophies and more.\u00a0\n\nDespite the pressure on their wild populations and having the strictest protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), around 12,000 leopards and their parts were traded between 2020 and 2023 worldwide, according to the CITES database.\u00a0\n\n\u201cLeopards across Africa, the Middle East and Asia have lost nearly 75 per cent of their natural habitats because of habitat destruction and poaching,\u201d says Amoroso.\n\n\u201cWhile wild big cat populations are at the brink of extinction, others are bred in questionable breeding facilities for the sole purpose of being traded across the world - alive or as body parts.\u201d\n\nSouth Africa is a major actor in the global big cat trade\u00a0\n\nDespite international scrutiny, South Africa continues to play a key role in supplying and fuelling the global demand for big cats and their body parts.\u00a0\n\nIt does so by allowing this intensive captive breeding industry to flourish under their ineffective legislation, says FOUR PAWS.\u00a0\n\nThe group\u2019s Break the Vicious Cycle campaign documents South Africa\u2019s leading role in the commercial exploitation and trade of big cat species.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe protection of big cats is not uniform across the world and varies from country to country. It even varies between big cat species,\u201d says Amoroso.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWildlife traffickers and dealers are aware of this and are always on the search for easy solutions to make money. If getting a tiger is too complicated, they will quickly move on to more accessible and less protected substitutes.\u201d\n\n\u201cFOUR PAWS is urging governments across the world to align with international standards on wild animal protection, such as CITES, to end unscrupulous wildlife trafficking and exploitation for profit,\u201d adds Amoroso.\u00a0\n\nA big cat sanctuary for threatened leopards\n\nFOUR PAWS also advocates for the protection of big cats at their LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.\u00a0\n\nIt was established nearly two decades ago, in 2006, to give traumatised big cats rescued from exploitation a second chance with species-appropriate care.\u00a0\n\nTwo of its first inhabitants were the leopards Mike and Tulani. After being rescued in 2006, they are now a \u201csenior couple\u201d at LIONSROCK.\u00a0\n\nTulani was born at a South African safari farm in 2002, before being bought as a cub by her previous owner to be kept as a pet. Mike was a wild leopard that was captured and kept in private captivity.\u00a0\n\nThough leopards enjoy solitude, Tulani and Mike quickly found comfort in each other's company. Nearly twenty years have passed, but both leopards are still spotted enjoying the African sun together.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Like many other big cat species, leopards are severely threatened by commercialisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alive or dead, they are traded as commodities to satisfy the growing demand for exotic pets, or for their bones, skulls, and skins to be used in traditional medicine, luxury products, or trophies.<\/p>\n<p>On International Leopard Day, 3 May, global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS is shining a spotlight on the exploitation of leopards in the global big cat trade.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tragic to see how these majestic creatures have turned into mere commodities,\u201d says Vanessa Amoroso, head of wild animals in trade at FOUR PAWS.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Leopards are being killed as substitutes for tigers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With the growing international demand for tigers, other big cat species like leopards are increasingly being targeted by poachers and wildlife traffickers, say FOUR PAWS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Purposely mislabelled as coming from \u201ctigers\u201d, bones, teeth and other <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//02//04//tiger-cubs-to-songbirds-huge-global-wildlife-trafficking-crackdown-sees-20000-live-animals/">body parts are traded<\/strong><\/a> in wildlife markets in Asia to become traditional medicine, luxurious accessories, trophies and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9245780,9234170\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//30//inside-the-new-seal-rescue-centre-caring-for-injured-pups-in-the-netherlands/">Inside the new seal rescue centre caring for injured pups in the Netherlands <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//25//some-shark-bites-are-survival-instinct-researchers-say-in-defence-of-threatened-predator/">Some shark bites are \u2018survival instinct\u2019, researchers say in defence of threatened predator<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Despite the pressure on their wild populations and having the strictest protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), around 12,000 leopards and their parts were traded between 2020 and 2023 worldwide, according to the CITES database.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6575\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div 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https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1080x710_cmsv2_ade15154-ae07-5f83-8ba7-5ccdcef592bd-9254894.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1200x789_cmsv2_ade15154-ae07-5f83-8ba7-5ccdcef592bd-9254894.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1920x1262_cmsv2_ade15154-ae07-5f83-8ba7-5ccdcef592bd-9254894.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Tulani at LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem, South Africa.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">\u00a9 FOUR PAWS | Monika M Girardi<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cLeopards across Africa, the Middle East and Asia have lost nearly 75 per cent of their natural habitats because of habitat destruction and poaching,\u201d says Amoroso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile wild big cat populations are at the brink of extinction, others are bred in questionable breeding facilities for the sole purpose of being traded across the world - alive or as body parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>South Africa is a major actor in the global big cat trade<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Despite international scrutiny, South Africa continues to play a key role in supplying and fuelling the global demand for big cats and their body parts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It does so by allowing this intensive captive breeding industry to flourish under their ineffective legislation, says FOUR PAWS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s<a 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>Break the Vicious Cycle campaign<\/strong><\/a> documents South Africa\u2019s leading role in the commercial exploitation and trade of big cat species.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protection of big cats is not uniform across the world and varies from country to country. It even varies between big cat species,\u201d says Amoroso.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//25//48//94//808x539_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg/" alt=\"The protection of big cats is not uniform across the world.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/384x256_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/640x427_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/750x500_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/828x552_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1080x720_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1200x800_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1920x1280_cmsv2_f484dece-5cbc-5a00-842f-569be182dc52-9254894.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The protection of big cats is not uniform across the world.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">\u00a9 FOUR PAWS<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cWildlife traffickers and dealers are aware of this and are always on the search for easy solutions to make money. If getting a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//02//03//india-doubles-tiger-population-in-a-decade-can-other-countries-learn-from-its-conservation/">tiger is too complicated, they will quickly move on to more accessible and less protected substitutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFOUR PAWS is urging governments across the world to align with international standards on wild animal protection, such as CITES, to end unscrupulous wildlife trafficking and exploitation for profit,\u201d adds Amoroso.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A big cat sanctuary for threatened leopards<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>FOUR PAWS also advocates for the protection of big cats at their <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com//?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com%2Fls%2Fclick%3Fupn%3Du001.y7jxcN1f77khZl-2Bq6mkYJsjTiFYkzhc0CBgQgd8h5Tyugo8EIaSlRWK3q9TethOPoAAVyzMSlZxmoJxb06vpXYriVMhci2gHtC69mlTBuWg-3DB33k_5zLzPD8O2gpJZnGZkPaZdklH1F5nHCNWBpjrnA4PXAzEgF-2B-2FwZDKVtCfCdla95kA27HNPYynkIqKLv7LtsRNWU-2FM5qTOoMrsal7A5l6DDS46oOyn8IRfoVP6B3D50Z-2BbBUXSI3PMGi4qyFADYN63csPDWfya7XDplZiJ7lUGgGjYNk77bWbqZZvcUiJaX5nY-2BYPUoWFKLt5UedefospZhp-2BodOlHhgpxSW6Mkkvo5GW-2Fc6tiwZpLbVbEMtkI0AxRnMZD2kPUGukhGOsuXx2V5ccQwJdtcxZnKUg24YxcPHoY8R6WkeEC5490Rc6oZWf51Peq6OGEcITjTqn74Vvj-2BkTioffIkE4WWLNngD6TYQZgOCc8V6QExdUDdP4f8Efi&data=05%7C02%7Crebecca-ann.hughes%40ext.euronews.com%7C4abff8a8d8504ff1bb2808dd87c42ad0%7Ce59fa28a32ed49aca5a09c46118cfecf%7C0%7C0%7C638815998785908219%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i0yDDt2MBFODvACHq6DKVXDm%2FgnAojqkdAjM7qNbDEc%3D&reserved=0\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary<\/strong><\/a> in South Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was established nearly two decades ago, in 2006, to give traumatised big cats rescued from exploitation a second chance with species-appropriate care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//25//48//94//808x539_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg/" alt=\"Tulani and Mike quickly found comfort in each other&#39;s company.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/384x256_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/640x427_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/750x500_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/828x552_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1080x720_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1200x800_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/1920x1280_cmsv2_68636012-b66e-55f6-833d-0c2e1d203682-9254894.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Tulani and Mike quickly found comfort in each other&#39;s company.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">\u00a9 FOUR PAWS<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Two of its first inhabitants were the leopards Mike and Tulani. After being rescued in 2006, they are now a \u201csenior couple\u201d at LIONSROCK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9201848,9174652\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//15//millions-of-people-are-tuning-in-to-watch-a-24-hour-livestream-of-moose-migrating-in-swede/">Millions of people are tuning in to watch a 24-hour livestream of moose migrating in Sweden<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//07//critically-endangered-galapagos-tortoises-become-first-time-parents-at-nearly-100-years-ol/">Critically endangered Galapagos tortoises become first time parents at nearly 100 years old <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Tulani was born at a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//06//dying-for-a-glass-of-wine-south-african-farm-workers-fight-eus-toxic-trade-in-pesticides/">South African<\/strong><\/a> safari farm in 2002, before being bought as a cub by her previous owner to be kept as a pet. Mike was a wild leopard that was captured and kept in private captivity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though leopards enjoy solitude, Tulani and Mike quickly found comfort in each other's company. Nearly twenty years have passed, but both leopards are still spotted enjoying the African sun together.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1746188694,"updatedAt":1746349917,"publishedAt":1746263021,"firstPublishedAt":1746263021,"lastPublishedAt":1746263027,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/25\/48\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0345aa24-b61a-553a-a98e-52acab1a17c3-9254894.jpg","altText":"Leopards are facing increasing commercialisation, threatening their survival. ","caption":"Leopards are facing increasing commercialisation, threatening their survival. 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Kyiv","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Zelenskyy curtails South Africa visit after Russian strike on Kyiv","titleListing2":"Zelenskyy curtails South Africa visit after deadly Russian strike on Kyiv","leadin":"The Ukrainian president held talks with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria before leaving the country.","summary":"The Ukrainian president held talks with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria before leaving the country.","keySentence":"","url":"zelenskyy-curtails-south-africa-visit-after-deadly-russian-strike-on-kyiv","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/04\/24\/zelenskyy-curtails-south-africa-visit-after-deadly-russian-strike-on-kyiv","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has cut short a visit to South Africa as a result of Russia\u2019s deadly overnight attack on Kyiv. \n\nZelenskyy, who only landed in the country on Wednesday evening, said he would leave after a meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria on Thursday morning. \n\nThe move came in response to a large-scale Russian missile and drone strike which killed nine and injured more than 70 in Ukraine\u2019s capital. \n\nThe Ukrainian leader had travelled to South Africa, which currently holds the presidency of the G20, in an attempt to \u201cbring a just peace closer\u201d. \n\nRamaphosa has billed himself as a possible mediator in negotiations to end Russia\u2019s all-out war in Ukraine. \n\nSouth Africa's president has said that he is one of the only world leaders with the ability to speak to both sides, as his country has ties with Moscow through the BRICS bloc of developing nations. \n\nAs part of his efforts, the South African president spoke to Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin on Monday, with both leaders saying they were \u201ccommitted to working together towards a peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict\u201d. \n\nThis week, Ramaphosa has also discussed Moscow's war in Ukraine with US President Donald Trump. \n\nTrump rebuked Zelenskyy on Wednesday, accusing him of jeopardising US-led peace negotiations by saying that Ukraine will not cede Russian-occupied Crimea, the peninsula Moscow unilaterally annexed in 2014. \n\n\u201cThere is nothing to talk about. It is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,\u201d Zelenskyy said earlier this week. \n\nIn response, Trump lambasted the Ukrainian president on social media, writing that his statement \u201cwill do nothing but prolong the \u2018killing field'\". \n\nUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Washington will abandon its push for peace in Ukraine if progress is not made soon. \n\nRubio decided not to attend talks in London on Wednesday between US, European and Ukrainian officials. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has cut short a visit to South Africa as a result of Russia\u2019s deadly overnight attack on Kyiv. <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy, who only landed in the country on Wednesday evening, said he would leave after a meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The move came in response to a large-scale Russian missile and drone strike which killed nine and injured more than 70 in Ukraine\u2019s capital. <\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian leader had travelled to South Africa, which currently holds the presidency of the G20, in an attempt to \u201cbring a just peace closer\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa has billed himself as a possible mediator in negotiations to end Russia\u2019s all-out war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa's president has said that he is one of the only world leaders with the ability to speak to both sides, as his country has ties with Moscow through the BRICS bloc of developing nations. <\/p>\n<p>As part of his efforts, the South African president spoke to Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin on Monday, with both leaders saying they were \u201ccommitted to working together towards a peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>This week, Ramaphosa has also discussed Moscow's war in Ukraine with US President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Trump rebuked Zelenskyy on Wednesday, accusing him of jeopardising US-led peace negotiations by saying that Ukraine will not cede Russian-occupied Crimea, the peninsula Moscow unilaterally annexed in 2014. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9228122\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//04//24//ukraine-will-have-to-make-some-compromises-in-russia-peace-talks-polish-president-andrzej-/">Ukraine will have to make some compromises in Russia peace talks, Polish President Andrzej Duda says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing to talk about. It is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,\u201d Zelenskyy said earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>In response, Trump lambasted the Ukrainian president on social media, writing that his statement \u201cwill do nothing but prolong the \u2018killing field'\". <\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Washington will abandon its push for peace in Ukraine if progress is not made soon. <\/p>\n<p>Rubio decided not to attend talks in London on Wednesday between US, European and Ukrainian officials. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1745492935,"updatedAt":1745496203,"publishedAt":1745496089,"firstPublishedAt":1745496089,"lastPublishedAt":1745496181,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/22\/98\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4b355036-7cb7-518b-a793-3e9a6fd54d12-9229870.jpg","altText":"Rescue workers carry the body of a victim found under the rubble after a Russian strike in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, 4 April 2025","caption":"Rescue workers carry the body of a victim found under the rubble after a Russian strike in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, 4 April 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Alex Babenko","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1335}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3272,"urlSafeValue":"sullivan","title":"Rory Sullivan","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7889,"slug":"south-africa","urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","titleRaw":"South Africa"},{"id":13025,"slug":"cyril-ramaphosa","urlSafeValue":"cyril-ramaphosa","title":"Cyril Ramaphosa","titleRaw":"Cyril Ramaphosa"},{"id":19400,"slug":"volodymyr-zelensky","urlSafeValue":"volodymyr-zelensky","title":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy","titleRaw":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy"},{"id":26692,"slug":"war-in-ukraine","urlSafeValue":"war-in-ukraine","title":"War in Ukraine","titleRaw":"War in Ukraine"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2790096},{"id":2789820}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":257,"urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","url":"\/news\/africa\/south-africa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84121001"],"slugs":["news"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/04\/24\/zelenskyy-curtails-south-africa-visit-after-deadly-russian-strike-on-kyiv","lastModified":1745496181},{"id":2780210,"cid":9168898,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"GREEN_South African farm workers demand EU stops flow of toxic pesticides","daletPyramidId":1069754,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Dying for a glass of wine? South African farm workers fight EU\u2019s \u2018toxic trade\u2019 in pesticides ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"South African farm workers demand EU stops flow of toxic pesticides ","titleListing2":"Dying for a glass of wine? South African farm workers fight EU\u2019s toxic trade in pesticides ","leadin":"Pesticides deemed too dangerous for Europe continue to be made here and exported. South Africa\u2019s farm workers have had enough.","summary":"Pesticides deemed too dangerous for Europe continue to be made here and exported. South Africa\u2019s farm workers have had enough.","keySentence":"","url":"dying-for-a-glass-of-wine-south-african-farm-workers-fight-eus-toxic-trade-in-pesticides","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/04\/06\/dying-for-a-glass-of-wine-south-african-farm-workers-fight-eus-toxic-trade-in-pesticides","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Dina Ndelini had been working on vineyards around Cape Town for more than 40 years when she was suddenly struck with breathlessness. A trip to the hospital quickly spiralled into a series of events which saw her lose her health, her job and, along with it, her home.\n\nAccording to her doctor, the most likely culprit was exposure to a chemical concoction known as Dormex. Commonly used as a plant growth regulator in South Africa its active ingredient, cyanamide, has been described as highly dangerous by the EU Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and banned in the EU since 2009.\n\nDespite this, Dormex is just one on a long list of highly hazardous chemicals which continue to be produced on European soil and sold to third countries. Food made abroad using these chemicals is then imported to be sold on Europe\u2019s supermarket shelves.\u00a0\n\nDina\u2019s was one of the many stories shared by farm workers as well as legal and health professionals at a recent People\u2019s Tribunal on Agrotoxins, which took place in the heart of the world-renowned wine region of Stellenbosch on 21-23 March.\n\nWhile not a formal court, these community-led tribunals provide a space for those impacted to share their testimonies in front of expert judges to consider allegations of international law violations, including environmental and human rights.\u00a0\n\nSouth African farm workers urge Europe to stop sending \u2018poisons\u2019\n\nAsked for her message to Europe, Dina was clear. \u201cWe say as farm workers, enough is enough - we don\u2019t want anymore these pesticides from Europe,\u201d she says, urging the bloc to \u201cstop sending us its poisons\u201d.\n\nThe sentiment was echoed many times over the course of the two-day tribunal, with farm workers taking the stand to share their stories of the impact of pesticide exposure on their lives, from lung damage, to ovarian cancer and impaired vision.\u00a0\n\n\u201cIf it\u2019s not good enough for Europeans, why do they think it\u2019s good enough for us?\u201d says another farm worker, who wished to remain anonymous, adding that European consumers should know \u201cthe human reality behind the wine they are drinking\u201d.\n\nAccording to the African Centre for Biodiversity, 192 highly hazardous pesticides are still legally in use in South Africa, 57 of which are banned for use in the EU. Some are neurotoxic or cancer-causing, while others are considered acutely toxic for the environment.\u00a0\n\nThose on the frontline of exposure are the farm workers and their families living in the vicinity of spraying, who fall on the lowest rung of the country\u2019s complex wealth and power inequalities, rooted in its apartheid past.\u00a0\n\nCommonly overworked, underpaid, and poorly protected on precarious contracts, farm workers have very little say in the running of these farms, managed by wealthy landowner boers (\u2018farmers\u2019).\u00a0\n\nThose most at risk are women, who are both biologically more susceptible to pesticide exposure and more vulnerable in South African societies, according to South Africa\u2019s Women on Farms project (WFP), an NGO working to protect women farm workers in the Western and Northern Cape.\u00a0\n\nThroughout the tribunal, workers repeatedly said personal protective equipment was not provided to them, with many testifying that women commonly bring scarves to cover their faces while they work. Others reported having no access to running water or toilets on the vineyards.\n\nBanned pesticide exports a \u2018blatant double standard\u2019\n\nAttempts to align trade standards are in the spotlight in Brussels, with the publication of a new EU policy roadmap for agriculture setting out plans to restrict food imports from third countries with residues of pesticides banned in Europe.\u00a0\n\nThis is not the first time that the EU has considered such a move, with murmurings that the Commission may stop the export of banned pesticides circulating for years.\u00a0\n\nBut the plans face staunch opposition from agroindustry groups, including pesticide lobby CropLife, which has long argued that these pesticides are necessary in certain circumstances.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe production realities of South African agriculture are vastly different, so it is difficult to compare to other countries and regions,\u201d CropLife South Africa said in a statement following the tribunal. It maintains that different crops, pests and climatic conditions require \u201cdifferent solutions and pesticides at different times\u201d.\n\nThis argument does not hold weight for UN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Dr Marcos Orellana. \u201cThe human body is the same everywhere - what differs is the lack of capacity of the government institutions to deal with the risks imposed on people in vulnerable situations,\u201d he says, calling it a \u201cblatant double standard\u201d.\u00a0\n\nInternational protections a \u2018tick box\u2019 exercise\n\nSouth Africa does have legal systems governing the use of such chemicals and is working towards a phase-out of highly hazardous pesticides in the near future, but tribunal participants argued that enforcement is often lacking. Meanwhile, farm workers are often unaware of or reluctant to advocate for their rights.\n\nFor the UN\u2019s Orellana, the argument that governments are sovereign to make their own decisions \u201cunderscores [the] lack of capacities in many, if not most, developing countries involved in international trade of pesticides\u201d and excludes the issue of \u201ccorruption and corporate capture of the government institutions that make these decisions\u201d.\u00a0\n\nMore widely, an international treaty called the Rotterdam Convention is designed to encourage informed decision-making by countries that trade in hazardous chemicals.\n\nBut for Dr Andrea Rother, head of the environmental health division at the University of Cape Town, the convention is too cumbersome to be effective. \u201cBy the time a pesticide gets listed, they are often obsolete,\u201d she says, adding that the convention is \u201cmore of a rubber stamping, \u2018tickbox\u2019 exercise\u201d than a true safeguard mechanism.\n\nPointing out that no African country manufactures its own pesticide ingredients, Rother maintains a ban on the EU side would be a \u201chuge help\u201d for South Africa.\n\n\u201cThere are alternatives to these pesticides,\u201d she says, arguing that such an export ban could be a \u201ccatalyst\u201d towards more sustainable agricultural systems.\u00a0\n\nFor WFP\u2019s campaigns coordinator, Kara MacKay, each day that the EU continues the production and export of these EU-banned chemicals to South Africa is another that it is \u201ccomplicit in the daily pesticide poisoning of farm workers and dwellers\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe must end this toxic trade - to argue any differently reveals a racist and colonial thinking that is unjustified,\u201d she says.\n\nIn the meantime, the expert judges adjudicating the People\u2019s Tribunal will evaluate the evidence presented by Dina and the rest of the farm workers, before offering their verdict and legal advice in a few months time.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Dina Ndelini had been working on vineyards around Cape Town for more than 40 years when she was suddenly struck with breathlessness. A trip to the hospital quickly spiralled into a series of events which saw her lose her health, her job and, along with it, her home.<\/p>\n<p>According to her doctor, the most likely culprit was exposure to a chemical concoction known as Dormex. Commonly used as a plant growth regulator in South Africa its active ingredient, cyanamide, has been described as<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////echa.europa.eu//substance-information//-//substanceinfo//100.006.358/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <\/a>highly dangerous by the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////echa.europa.eu//substance-information//-//substanceinfo//100.006.358/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>EU Chemicals Agency (ECHA)<\/strong><\/a> and banned in the EU since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Dormex is just one on a<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////unpoison.org//wp-content//uploads//2023//08//SA-list-of-Highly-Hazardous-Pesticides-using-JMPM-criteria-WHOFAO-ban-comparisson.pdf/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>long list<\/strong><\/a> of highly hazardous chemicals which continue to be produced on European soil and sold to third countries. Food made abroad using these chemicals is then imported to be sold on Europe\u2019s supermarket shelves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7697420,9161900\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//04//02//dead-hedgehogs-forever-chemicals-pcb-pollution/">Dead hedgehogs reveal PCB pollution still haunts the environment decades after ban<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//21//the-eu-and-uk-exported-1000-tonnes-of-a-banned-pesticide-to-poorer-countries-investigation/">The EU and UK exported 1,000 tonnes of a banned pesticide to poorer countries, investigation reveals<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Dina\u2019s was one of the many stories shared by farm workers as well as legal and health professionals at a recent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////agrotoxinstribunalsa.co.za//tribunal///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>People\u2019s Tribunal on Agrotoxins<\/strong><\/a>, which took place in the heart of the world-renowned wine region of Stellenbosch on 21-23 March.<\/p>\n<p>While not a formal court, these community-led tribunals provide a space for those impacted to share their testimonies in front of expert judges to consider allegations of international law violations, including environmental and human rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>South African farm workers urge Europe to stop sending \u2018poisons\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Asked for her message to Europe, Dina was clear. \u201cWe say as farm workers, enough is enough - we don\u2019t want anymore these pesticides from Europe,\u201d she says, urging the bloc to \u201cstop sending us its poisons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The sentiment was echoed many times over the course of the two-day tribunal, with farm workers taking the stand to share their stories of the impact of pesticide exposure on their lives, from lung damage, to ovarian cancer and impaired vision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s not good enough for Europeans, why do they think it\u2019s good enough for us?\u201d says another farm worker, who wished to remain anonymous, adding that European consumers should know \u201cthe human reality behind the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//26//worst-wine-harvest-in-62-years-blamed-on-extreme-weather-and-climate-change/">wine they are drinking\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//16//88//98//808x454_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg/" alt=\"Mekie Piet, another farm worker, shares her testimony on the impact of toxic pesticides.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/384x216_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/640x360_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/750x422_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/828x466_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/1080x608_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/1200x675_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/1920x1080_cmsv2_f2221ad6-8e20-502e-a1bd-793bbae844fc-9168898.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Mekie Piet, another farm worker, shares her testimony on the impact of toxic pesticides.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Natasha Foote<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>According to the African Centre for Biodiversity, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////acbio.org.za//corporate-expansion//south-africas-highly-hazardous-pesticides-published-by-unpoison///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>192 highly hazardous pesticides<\/strong><\/a> are still legally in use in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//03//13//eu-targets-africas-mineral-wealth-and-green-energy-in-new-partnership/">South Africa<\/strong><\/a>, 57 of which are banned for use in the EU. Some are neurotoxic or cancer-causing, while others are considered acutely toxic for the environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those on the frontline of exposure are the farm workers and their families living in the vicinity of spraying, who fall on the lowest rung of the country\u2019s complex wealth and power inequalities, rooted in its apartheid past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commonly overworked, underpaid, and poorly protected on precarious contracts, farm workers have very little say in the running of these farms, managed by wealthy landowner boers (\u2018farmers\u2019).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those most at risk are women, who are both<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////eu.boell.org//en//PesticideAtlas-gender/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>biologically more susceptible to pesticide exposure<\/strong><\/a> and<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////wfp.org.za//labour///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>more vulnerable<\/strong><\/a> in South African societies, according to South Africa\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////wfp.org.za///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Women on Farms project<\/strong><\/a> (WFP), an NGO working to protect women farm workers in the Western and Northern Cape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the tribunal, workers repeatedly said personal protective equipment was not provided to them, with many testifying that women commonly bring scarves to cover their faces while they work. Others reported having no access to running water or toilets on the vineyards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7857260,9099078\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//03//07//us-has-exited-climate-deal-that-helps-developing-nations-switch-to-green-energy-south-afri/">US has exited climate deal that helps developing nations switch to green energy, South Africa says<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//30//belgium-france-germany-pesticide-giants-are-exporting-banned-chemicals-through-european-lo/">Belgium, France, Germany: Pesticide giants are exporting banned chemicals through European loopholes<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Banned pesticide exports a \u2018blatant double standard\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Attempts to align trade standards are in the spotlight in Brussels, with the publication of a new EU policy roadmap for agriculture setting out plans to restrict food imports from third countries with residues of pesticides banned in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that the EU has considered such a move, with murmurings that the Commission may stop the export of banned pesticides circulating for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the plans face staunch opposition from agroindustry groups, including pesticide lobby CropLife, which has long argued that these <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//03//03//we-must-consume-better-differently-and-less-eu-pollution-check-up-exposes-waste-problem/">pesticides are necessary in certain circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe production realities of South African agriculture are vastly different, so it is difficult to compare to other countries and regions,\u201d CropLife South Africa said in a statement following the tribunal. It maintains that different crops, pests and climatic conditions require \u201cdifferent solutions and pesticides at different times\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This argument does not hold weight for UN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Dr Marcos Orellana. \u201cThe human body is the same everywhere - what differs is the lack of capacity of the government institutions to deal with the risks imposed on people in vulnerable situations,\u201d he says, calling it a \u201cblatant double standard\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8874668,8548650\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//26//despite-insect-protection-laws-eu-has-authorised-dozens-of-dangerous-pesticides-new-report/">Despite insect protection laws, EU has authorised dozens of dangerous pesticides, new report finds<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//07//we-are-the-first-impacted-by-climate-change-why-europes-rural-farmers-support-green-polici/">/u2018We are the first impacted by climate change\u2019: Why Europe\u2019s rural farmers support green policies<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>International protections a \u2018tick box\u2019 exercise<\/h2>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//06//young-campaigners-win-landmark-climate-case-to-stop-new-coal-power-in-south-africa/">South Africa<\/strong><\/a> does have legal systems governing the use of such chemicals and is working towards a phase-out of highly hazardous pesticides in the near future, but tribunal participants argued that enforcement is often lacking. Meanwhile, farm workers are often unaware of or reluctant to advocate for their rights.<\/p>\n<p>For the UN\u2019s Orellana, the argument that governments are sovereign to make their own decisions \u201cunderscores [the] lack of capacities in many, if not most, developing countries involved in international trade of pesticides\u201d and excludes the issue of \u201ccorruption and corporate capture of the government institutions that make these decisions\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//16//88//98//808x454_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg/" alt=\"The community-led tribunal provided a space for those impacted to come together and share their testimonies in front of expert judges.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/384x216_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/640x360_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/750x422_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/828x466_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/1080x608_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/1200x675_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/1920x1080_cmsv2_b49551ec-403a-5e50-9a49-a4a8338f0276-9168898.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The community-led tribunal provided a space for those impacted to come together and share their testimonies in front of expert judges.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Natasha Foote<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>More widely, an international treaty called the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.pic.int///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Rotterdam Convention<\/strong><\/a> is designed to encourage informed decision-making by countries that trade in hazardous chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>But for Dr Andrea Rother, head of the environmental health division at the University of Cape Town, the convention is too cumbersome to be effective. \u201cBy the time a pesticide gets listed, they are often obsolete,\u201d she says, adding that the convention is \u201cmore of a rubber stamping, \u2018tickbox\u2019 exercise\u201d than a true safeguard mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that no African country manufactures its own pesticide ingredients, Rother maintains a ban on the EU side would be a \u201chuge help\u201d for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are alternatives to these pesticides,\u201d she says, arguing that such an export ban could be a \u201ccatalyst\u201d towards more <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//26//the-first-food-cop-why-agriculture-is-finally-on-the-table-at-the-un-climate-summit/">sustainable agricultural systems<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For WFP\u2019s campaigns coordinator, Kara MacKay, each day that the EU continues the production and export of these EU-banned chemicals to South Africa is another that it is \u201ccomplicit in the daily pesticide poisoning of farm workers and dwellers\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must end this toxic trade - to argue any differently reveals a racist and colonial thinking that is unjustified,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the expert judges adjudicating the People\u2019s Tribunal will evaluate the evidence presented by Dina and the rest of the farm workers, before offering their verdict and legal advice in a few months time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1743765784,"updatedAt":1743928773,"publishedAt":1743926681,"firstPublishedAt":1743926681,"lastPublishedAt":1743926748,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/88\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ad2b9d77-7daf-50e6-a381-9aaa8303f06b-9168898.jpg","altText":"Dina Ndleleni shared her testimony at the People\u2019s Tribunal on Agrotoxins.","caption":"Dina Ndleleni shared her testimony at the 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initiatives","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US aid cuts strain needle exchange lifeline for South Africa's addicts","titleListing2":"US aid cuts squeeze needle exchange programme for drug users in South Africa","leadin":"The harm reduction initiative is not funded by the US, but it is now competing for scarce local resources.","summary":"The harm reduction initiative is not funded by the US, but it is now competing for scarce local resources.","keySentence":"","url":"hiv-threat-looms-over-addicts-in-south-africa-as-us-aid-cuts-strain-needle-exchange-initia","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2025\/04\/04\/hiv-threat-looms-over-addicts-in-south-africa-as-us-aid-cuts-strain-needle-exchange-initia","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa\u2019s capital is home to dozens of people with drug addiction. \n\nThey inject themselves and each other with heroin-laden mixtures, some of them sharing needles.\n\nA group of health workers has been making weekly visits to this and a dozen other places across Pretoria. \n\nIn the project backed by the University of Pretoria and the Tshwane municipality, they offer the chance to exchange needles for new, sterile ones.\n\nNeedle exchange is not a new idea globally, but such efforts have been jolted by the Trump administration\u2019s decision to kill 83 per cent of US Agency for International Development (USAID) programmes around the world.\n\nIn South Africa, which has more people living with HIV than any other country, treatment for people with HIV has been hit hard. Users who share needles are especially at risk of such diseases.\n\nThe team in Pretoria includes doctors and social workers who have built relationships with the drug users, encouraging them to accept an opioid-substitution therapy, and offering treatment if they have illnesses like HIV.\n\nThe need for such help is increasing. Last year, a University of Pretoria report estimated that 84,000 people inject drugs in South Africa, and in Pretoria there was HIV prevalence of 38 per cent.\n\nSouth Africa's overall HIV prevalence is over 12 per cent, according to government data.\n\nThe report said the country's drug market for cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine is worth about $3.5 billion (\u20ac3.24 billion), and growing.\n\nUS aid cuts bring uncertainty\n\nWhile the Community Oriented Substance Use Programme in Pretoria is fully funded by the municipality and the university, it is indirectly affected by the shock to the global aid system. Some nonprofits that the programme partners with have closed.\n\nAnd at least one local health clinic that was providing services in Pretoria has closed, forcing patients to turn to often crowded, poorly funded government-run facilities.\n\nNow, harm reduction programmes like the Pretoria one for drug users will face stiff competition for sharply shrinking resources.\n\nRegrets and hope\n\nAs doctors did consultations, Phumulani Mahlangu expressed regret for his situation. The 30-year-old said he is addicted to a heroin mixture locally known as nyaope. He is homeless and has three children in his hometown nearly 200 km away.\n\n\"In 2013, I experienced\u2026 nyaope with friends. I never felt such relaxation before,\" he said as he prepared a syringe. \"I started spending my own money on it and that's how I got here\".\u00a0\n\nHe takes part in the needle exchange.\n\nDipolelo Lekota is one of the few female drug users at the site. The 30-year-old said she was struggling to quit drugs so she could take care of her child, who is with relatives.\n\nShe said she can access HIV medication and clean needles through the visiting project to avoid infecting others.\n\nWithdrawal pains\n\nLikwa Ncube leads the project in parts of Pretoria. He acknowledged that drug withdrawal can be painful as people accept methadone instead.\n\n\"It\u2019s not an easy thing to deal with,\" he said. The challenge is helping them through it.\n\nNcube said the programme, like similar ones elsewhere in the world, had been unfairly accused of enabling or encouraging drug use because it provides needles.\n\n\"It can be viewed as if you are enabling somebody to use, but we can have the same argument with condoms,\" he said.\n\n\"When we distribute condoms, are we saying we are encouraging people to have sex?\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa\u2019s capital is home to dozens of people with drug addiction. <\/p>\n<p>They <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//28//missing-piece-of-the-jigsaw-glasgow-hopes-safe-injection-site-will-curb-overdose-deaths/">inject themselves<\/strong><\/a> and each other with heroin-laden mixtures, some of them sharing needles.<\/p>\n<p>A group of health workers has been making weekly visits to this and a dozen other places across Pretoria. <\/p>\n<p>In the project backed by the University of Pretoria and the Tshwane municipality, they offer the chance to exchange needles for new, sterile ones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9026812\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//03//donald-trump-and-elon-musk-want-to-dismantle-usaid-which-countries-will-be-hit-hardest/">Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle USAID. Which countries will be hit hardest?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Needle exchange is not a new idea globally, but such efforts have been jolted by the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//17//trumps-aid-freeze-will-cause-hiv-patients-to-miss-treatment-south-african-ngos-warn/">Trump administration\u2019s decision<\/strong><\/a> to kill 83 per cent of US Agency for International Development (USAID) programmes around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, which has more <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//13//what-happens-if-hiv-drugs-are-stopped-for-millions-of-people/">people living with HIV<\/strong><\/a> than any other country, treatment for people with HIV has been hit hard. Users who share needles are especially at risk of such diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The team in Pretoria includes doctors and social workers who have built relationships with the drug users, encouraging them to accept an opioid-substitution therapy, and offering treatment if they have illnesses like <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//07//23//nearly-40-million-people-living-with-hiv-with-one-aids-death-a-minute-in-2023-new-un-repor/">HIV./n

The need for such help is increasing. Last year, a University of Pretoria report estimated that 84,000 people inject drugs in South Africa, and in Pretoria there was HIV prevalence of 38 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa's overall HIV prevalence is over 12 per cent, according to government data.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the country's drug market for cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine is worth about $3.5 billion (\u20ac3.24 billion), and growing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9096772\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//03//07//utterly-devastating-global-health-groups-left-reeling-as-european-countries-slash-foreign-/">/u2018Utterly devastating\u2019: Global health groups left reeling as European countries slash foreign aid<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>US aid cuts bring uncertainty<\/h2>\n<p>While the Community Oriented Substance Use Programme in Pretoria is fully funded by the municipality and the university, it is indirectly affected by the shock to the global aid system. Some nonprofits that the programme partners with have closed.<\/p>\n<p>And at least one local health clinic that was providing services in Pretoria has closed, forcing patients to turn to often crowded, poorly funded government-run facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Now, harm reduction programmes like the Pretoria one for drug users will face stiff competition for sharply shrinking resources.<\/p>\n<h2>Regrets and hope<\/h2>\n<p>As doctors did consultations, Phumulani Mahlangu expressed regret for his situation. The 30-year-old said he is addicted to a heroin mixture locally known as nyaope. He is homeless and has three children in his hometown nearly 200 km away.<\/p>\n<p>\"In 2013, I experienced\u2026 nyaope with friends. I never felt such relaxation before,\" he said as he prepared a syringe. \"I started spending my own money on it and that's how I got here\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He takes part in the needle exchange.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9060860\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//17//trumps-aid-freeze-will-cause-hiv-patients-to-miss-treatment-south-african-ngos-warn/">Trump's aid freeze will cause HIV patients to miss treatment, South African NGOs warn<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Dipolelo Lekota is one of the few female drug users at the site. The 30-year-old said she was struggling to quit drugs so she could take care of her child, who is with relatives.<\/p>\n<p>She said she can access <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//12//01//am-i-going-to-die-5-myths-and-misconceptions-about-hiv-and-aids/">HIV medication<\/strong><\/a> and clean needles through the visiting project to avoid infecting others.<\/p>\n<h2>Withdrawal pains<\/h2>\n<p>Likwa Ncube leads the project in parts of Pretoria. He acknowledged that drug withdrawal can be painful as people accept methadone instead.<\/p>\n<p>\"It\u2019s not an easy thing to deal with,\" he said. The challenge is helping them through it.<\/p>\n<p>Ncube said the programme, like similar ones elsewhere in the world, had been unfairly accused of enabling or encouraging drug use because it provides needles.<\/p>\n<p>\"It can be viewed as if you are enabling somebody to use, but we can have the same argument with condoms,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"When we distribute condoms, are we saying we are encouraging people to have sex?\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1743753866,"updatedAt":1743761824,"publishedAt":1743761404,"firstPublishedAt":1743761404,"lastPublishedAt":1743761404,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/16\/77\/52\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_09a89689-a21f-525f-9bb2-83002c58700b-9167752.jpg","altText":"A drug addict undergoes a medical check up at a syringe exchange programme before receiving new sterile syringe, on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa.","caption":"A drug addict undergoes a medical check up at a syringe exchange 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Ramaphosa rejects Trump and Musk's claims of Afrikaner persecution ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"South African president rejects claims of Afrikaner persecution ","titleListing2":"South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims of Afrikaner persecution.","leadin":"Donald Trump previously signed an executive order to cut funding to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners, claiming the government was enabling farm attacks and land dispossession.","summary":"Donald Trump previously signed an executive order to cut funding to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners, claiming the government was enabling farm attacks and land dispossession.","keySentence":"","url":"south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-rejects-claims-of-afrikaner-persecution","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/03\/25\/south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-rejects-claims-of-afrikaner-persecution","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a \"completely false narrative\".\n\nHis comments come amid accusations from US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and white minority groups, that South Africa's government is enabling violence against the white Afrikaner population.\n\nIn his weekly address on Monday, Ramaphosa urged South Africans not to let \"events beyond our shores divide us or turn us against each other,\" and called for a rejection of the \"completely false narrative\" that any racial or cultural group is being persecuted in the country.\n\nAlthough Ramaphosa did not name individuals, his remarks were a direct rebuttal of claims promoted by Trump and Musk that South Africa is intentionally marginalising its white minority through farm attacks and land reform legislation.\n\nMusk and Trump amplify racial allegations\u00a0\n\nSouth African-born Elon Musk, a vocal critic of South Africa's post-apartheid government recently posted on X that some political leaders were \"actively promoting white genocide.\"\n\nHe cited a political rally held by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a far-left opposition party, where its leaders were filmed chanting the controversial liberation-era song \"Kill the Boer, the farmer.\" The term Boer refers to white Afrikaner farmers.\n\nMusk's comments echo those of Trump, who recently signed an executive order to cut US funding to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners in the United States.\u00a0\n\nTrump's order accused the South African government of encouraging violence and enacting land expropriation policies designed to dispossess white farmers.\n\nAfrikaners, descendants of mainly Dutch and French settlers, were historically central to the apartheid regime, but have continued to live in post-1994 South Africa, which has made progress on reconciliation.\n\nThe EFF, South Africa\u2019s fourth-largest political party with 9.5% of the vote in the last general election, has been criticised in the past for causing racial tensions and repeatedly performing \"Kill the Boer\" at public events.\u00a0\n\nWhile a court banned the song as hate speech over a decade ago, a 2022 ruling reversed the decision, concluding that the song was protected under freedom of expression and did not constitute incitement to violence.\n\nThe EFF argues that the chant is a historical slogan from the anti-apartheid struggle, not a literal call to violence. In some cases, the lyrics have been altered to \"Kiss the Boer.\"\n\nHowever, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the chant \"incites violence\" and called on South African leaders to protect Afrikaners and other minority groups, adding that the US would welcome those seeking refuge from threats.\n\nFollowing Trump's executive order, the South African government has worked to counter what it calls misinformation about violence against white farmers.\u00a0\n\nWhile Afrikaner advocacy groups argue that police under-report attacks on rural white farmers, their figures remain small relative to overall crime statistics.\u00a0\n\nBetween October and December last year, the group claimed eight farm murders, while police records showed only one. Yet during the same period, 6,953 homicides occurred nationwide.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a \"completely false narrative\".<\/p>\n<p>His comments come amid accusations from US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and white minority groups, that South Africa's government is enabling violence against the white Afrikaner population.<\/p>\n<p>In his weekly address on Monday, Ramaphosa urged South Africans not to let \"events beyond our shores divide us or turn us against each other,\" and called for a rejection of the \"completely false narrative\" that any racial or cultural group is being persecuted in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ramaphosa did not name individuals, his remarks were a direct rebuttal of claims promoted by Trump and Musk that South Africa is intentionally marginalising its white minority through farm attacks and land reform legislation.<\/p>\n<h2>Musk and Trump amplify racial allegations<\/h2>\n<p>South African-born Elon Musk, a vocal critic of South Africa's post-apartheid government recently posted on X that some political leaders were \"actively promoting white genocide.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//13//98//72//808x539_cmsv2_d12795ee-b278-5d79-b9f2-b0d6d976adf8-9139872.jpg/" alt=\"A bumper sign calls for the end of farm killings in South Africa during a blockade of a freeway in Midvaal, 30 October, 2017\" 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(max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A bumper sign calls for the end of farm killings in South Africa during a blockade of a freeway in Midvaal, 30 October, 2017<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>He cited a political rally held by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a far-left opposition party, where its leaders were filmed chanting the controversial liberation-era song \"Kill the Boer, the farmer.\" The term Boer refers to white Afrikaner farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Musk's comments echo those of Trump, who recently signed an executive order to cut US funding to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump's order accused the South African government of encouraging violence and enacting land expropriation policies designed to dispossess white farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Afrikaners, descendants of mainly Dutch and French settlers, were historically central to the apartheid regime, but have continued to live in post-1994 South Africa, which has made progress on reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>The EFF, South Africa\u2019s fourth-largest political party with 9.5% of the vote in the last general election, has been criticised in the past for causing racial tensions and repeatedly performing \"Kill the Boer\" at public events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While a court banned the song as hate speech over a decade ago, a 2022 ruling reversed the decision, concluding that the song was protected under freedom of expression and did not constitute incitement to violence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9104952,9060860\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//03//10//south-african-anti-apartheid-playwright-athol-fugard-dies-aged-92/">South African anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard dies aged 92<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//17//trumps-aid-freeze-will-cause-hiv-patients-to-miss-treatment-south-african-ngos-warn/">Trump's aid freeze will cause HIV patients to miss treatment, South African NGOs warn<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The EFF argues that the chant is a historical slogan from the anti-apartheid struggle, not a literal call to violence. In some cases, the lyrics have been altered to \"Kiss the Boer.\"<\/p>\n<p>However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the chant \"incites violence\" and called on South African leaders to protect Afrikaners and other minority groups, adding that the US would welcome those seeking refuge from threats.<\/p>\n<p>Following Trump's executive order, the South African government has worked to counter what it calls misinformation about violence against white farmers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Afrikaner advocacy groups argue that police under-report attacks on rural white farmers, their figures remain small relative to overall crime statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between October and December last year, the group claimed eight farm murders, while police records showed only one. Yet during the same period, 6,953 homicides occurred nationwide.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1742915417,"updatedAt":1742918374,"publishedAt":1742917242,"firstPublishedAt":1742917242,"lastPublishedAt":1742918374,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/13\/98\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d43af835-c875-5738-a6eb-0105b38af02a-9139872.jpg","altText":"People place white crosses representing farmers killed in the country at a ceremony at the Vorrtrekker Monument in Pretoria, 30 October, 2017","caption":"People place white crosses representing farmers killed in the country at a ceremony at the Vorrtrekker Monument in Pretoria, 30 October, 2017","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Jerome Delay, File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1124},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/13\/98\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d12795ee-b278-5d79-b9f2-b0d6d976adf8-9139872.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3252,"urlSafeValue":"al-yahyai","title":"Oman Al Yahyai","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7889,"slug":"south-africa","urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","titleRaw":"South Africa"},{"id":13025,"slug":"cyril-ramaphosa","urlSafeValue":"cyril-ramaphosa","title":"Cyril Ramaphosa","titleRaw":"Cyril Ramaphosa"},{"id":13814,"slug":"elon-musk","urlSafeValue":"elon-musk","title":"Elon Musk","titleRaw":"Elon Musk"},{"id":11900,"slug":"donald-trump","urlSafeValue":"donald-trump","title":"Donald Trump","titleRaw":"Donald Trump"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":1},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2554386},{"id":1728816},{"id":2848297}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":257,"urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","url":"\/news\/africa\/south-africa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84121001"],"slugs":["news"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/03\/25\/south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-rejects-claims-of-afrikaner-persecution","lastModified":1742918374},{"id":2768668,"cid":9108492,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"south africa bus accident","daletPyramidId":835241,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"At least 16 dead after bus crashes on motorway in South Africa","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"At least 16 dead after bus crashes on motorway in South Africa","titleListing2":"At least 16 dead after bus crashes on motorway in South Africa","leadin":"The accident happened near Johannesburg\u2019s O.R.Tambo International Airport on Tuesday. The cause remains unknown.","summary":"The accident happened near Johannesburg\u2019s O.R.Tambo International Airport on Tuesday. The cause remains unknown.","keySentence":"","url":"at-least-16-dead-after-bus-crashes-on-motorway-in-south-africa","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/03\/11\/at-least-16-dead-after-bus-crashes-on-motorway-in-south-africa","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At least 16 people were killed when a bus crashed on a motorway near Johannesburg\u2019s international airport in South Africa on Tuesday, the country\u2019s transport ministry has said. \n\nMinistry spokesperson Collen Msibi confirmed that 12 passengers died at the scene and four others died later from their injuries in hospital. \n\nThe cause of the accident is yet to be determined, officials said. \n\nThe bus, which was transporting people from the township of Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, crashed near O.R.Tambo International Airport, they added. \n\n\u201cOn arrival we found patients lying across the road,\u201d said William Ntladi, an emergency management spokesperson for the Ekurhuleni municipality.\n\nNtladi added that 11 passengers were critically injured, while another 24 suffered moderate to serious injuries. \n\nResponding to the tragedy, Andile Mngwevu, a city councillor, said: \u201cWe are lost for words. This is a disaster.\n\n\u201cTo see so many bodies lying around is quite saddening, and the city really feels for the families who would have expected to see their loved ones return home later today.\u201d\n\nSouth African Transport Minister Barbra Creecy said she was \u201cextremely concerned\u201d by the crash, which is the country's third serious bus accident in the past week. \n\nCreecy has asked the Road Traffic Management Corporation to meet with all bus operators soon to speak about improving passenger safety. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 16 people were killed when a bus crashed on a motorway near Johannesburg\u2019s international airport in South Africa on Tuesday, the country\u2019s transport ministry has said. <\/p>\n<p>Ministry spokesperson Collen Msibi confirmed that 12 passengers died at the scene and four others died later from their injuries in hospital. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident is yet to be determined, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The bus, which was transporting people from the township of Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, crashed near O.R.Tambo International Airport, they added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn arrival we found patients lying across the road,\u201d said William Ntladi, an emergency management spokesperson for the Ekurhuleni municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Ntladi added that 11 passengers were critically injured, while another 24 suffered moderate to serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to the tragedy, Andile Mngwevu, a city councillor, said: \u201cWe are lost for words. This is a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see so many bodies lying around is quite saddening, and the city really feels for the families who would have expected to see their loved ones return home later today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South African Transport Minister Barbra Creecy said she was \u201cextremely concerned\u201d by the crash, which is the country's third serious bus accident in the past week. <\/p>\n<p>Creecy has asked the Road Traffic Management Corporation to meet with all bus operators soon to speak about improving passenger safety. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1741707883,"updatedAt":1741716502,"publishedAt":1741710775,"firstPublishedAt":1741710775,"lastPublishedAt":1741710775,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/10\/84\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ead61722-0605-5edd-8edc-d51299ab9f5e-9108492.jpg","altText":"Pedestrians standing on a bridge look at a bus that overturned on a highway in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 11 March, 2025. 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","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1124}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3272,"urlSafeValue":"sullivan","title":"Rory Sullivan","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7889,"slug":"south-africa","urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","titleRaw":"South Africa"},{"id":12128,"slug":"bus-crash","urlSafeValue":"bus-crash","title":"Bus Crash","titleRaw":"Bus 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News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"africa","title":"Africa"},"country":{"id":257,"urlSafeValue":"south-africa","title":"South Africa","url":"\/news\/africa\/south-africa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84121001"],"slugs":["news"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/03\/11\/at-least-16-dead-after-bus-crashes-on-motorway-in-south-africa","lastModified":1741710775},{"id":2756562,"cid":9060860,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"250217_HLSU_57773546","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"HEALTH SOUTH AFRICA HIV","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Trump's aid freeze will cause HIV patients to miss treatment, South African NGOs warn","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"South Africa\u2019s HIV patients could miss care due to Trump\u2019s aid freeze","titleListing2":"Trump's aid freeze will cause HIV patients to miss treatment, South African NGOs warn","leadin":"About 5.5 million South Africans receive antiretroviral treatment that could be disrupted after the US suspended funding for an anti-HIV programme.","summary":"About 5.5 million South Africans receive antiretroviral treatment that could be disrupted after the US suspended funding for an anti-HIV programme.","keySentence":"","url":"trumps-aid-freeze-will-cause-hiv-patients-to-miss-treatment-south-african-ngos-warn","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2025\/02\/17\/trumps-aid-freeze-will-cause-hiv-patients-to-miss-treatment-south-african-ngos-warn","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At a rural village in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, unemployed 19-year-old Nozuko Majola is trying to figure out if she has enough money for the one-hour ride to collect her much-needed HIV medication, usually delivered to her home that can't be easily reached due to rough, untarred roads.\n\nMajola is one of millions of patients in South Africa affected by US President Donald Trump\u2019s global foreign aid freeze, raising worries about HIV patients defaulting on treatment, infection rates going up, and eventually a rise in deaths.\n\nIn 2024, the think tank Human Sciences Research Council released figures showing that Majola's province recorded the second-highest HIV prevalence in the country, at 16 per cent, with at least 1,300 young people estimated to contract the disease every week.\n\nKwaZulu-Natal also had the highest number of people living with HIV in South Africa in 2022, about 1.9 million.\n\nThe country counts more than 7.5 million people infected with the virus that causes AIDS \u2013 more than any other nation.\n\nThere are 5.5 million South Africans receiving antiretroviral treatment, whose funding is now in question after Trump suspended the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.\n\nThe initiative contributes more than $400 million (\u20ac384.5 million) a year to South Africa's HIV programmes and nongovernmental organisations, about 17 per cent of the total funding, according to the Health Ministry.\n\nGlobally, PEPFAR is credited with saving at least 26 million lives since its inception in 2003, according to the UN AIDS agency.\n\nImpact of Trump freeze\n\nLast week, a US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift the funding freeze, while the US Embassy in South Africa said PEPFAR projects would resume under a limited waiver.\n\nHowever, aid groups dealing with HIV have already shuttered, with closure notices hanging at the entrances and PEPFAR-branded vehicles standing idle. Patients are being diverted to struggling health facilities.\n\nMost of the PEPFAR funding is channelled through non-governmental organisations, which run programmes that complement health care services provided by the government.\n\nFor Majola and other HIV patients in the Umzimkhulu region, where unemployment is rife and most people rely on subsistence farming and government welfare grants, the aid freeze has disrupted their lives.\n\n\u201cThings will be tough around here, and a lot of people will default on their treatment because we really struggle with transport,\" she said. \u201cThe mobile clinics hardly come here\u201d.\n\nThe freeze has hurt various groups that can no longer provide treatment, causing an influx of patients to already overstretched public facilities. Along with the medication, these programmes also allowed health personnel to test HIV patients in far-flung villages, which has been a lifeline for many, especially those afraid to visit public facilities due to the social stigma attached to HIV.\n\nIn addition, nearly 15,000 health workers whose salaries are funded through PEPFAR are left wondering if they have lost their livelihoods.\n\n\u2018A matter of life and death\u2019\n\nAbout an hour away in the district of Umgungundlovu, which the think tank says has the highest number of HIV cases in South Africa, HIV counsellors gathered in a small office discussing how best to assist patients like Majola.\n\nA manager at a nearby health clinic wondered how to handle the administrative work that is piling up after PEPFAR-funded workers withdrew.\n\n\u201cPeople who were doing administration and data capturing, whose salaries were funded by PEPFAR, have left,\u201d said the manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the press.\n\n\u201cWe are a small facility and we cannot handle such a workload,\u201d the manager said.\n\nNozuko Ngcaweni has been on HIV treatment for about 30 years. One of her children was also infected and died at age 17. She said the aid suspension already impacted her community and many missed their treatment.\n\n\u201cNot long ago, we said by 2030, we want to see an HIV-free generation. But if things remain as is, we will not achieve that. We will have to deal with deaths,\u201d she said.\n\nMzamo Zondi, a provincial manager of the Treatment Action Campaign, which advocates for access to HIV treatment for the poor, has been monitoring the impact of the aid freeze in Umgungudlovu.\n\n\"Our response [to HIV] is likely to falter as we struggle to stop newly infected cases,\" he said. \u201cThis is a matter of life and death\u201d.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At a rural village in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, unemployed 19-year-old Nozuko Majola is trying to figure out if she has enough money for the one-hour ride to collect her much-needed HIV medication, usually delivered to her home that can't be easily reached due to rough, untarred roads.<\/p>\n<p>Majola is one of millions of patients in South Africa affected by US President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//29//us-freeze-on-foreign-aid-funding-is-a-death-sentence-for-people-in-need-ngos-warn/">global foreign aid freeze<\/strong><\/a>, raising worries about HIV patients defaulting on treatment, infection rates going up, and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//01//29//trumps-pause-on-foreign-aid-raises-hiv-risks-for-millions-world-health-organization-warns/">eventually a rise in deaths.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the think tank Human Sciences Research Council released figures showing that Majola's province recorded the second-highest HIV prevalence in the country, at 16 per cent, with at least 1,300 young people estimated to contract the disease every week.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal also had the highest number of people living with HIV in South Africa in 2022, about 1.9 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9053614\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//13//what-happens-if-hiv-drugs-are-stopped-for-millions-of-people/">What happens if HIV drugs are stopped for millions of people<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The country counts more than 7.5 million people infected with the virus that causes AIDS \u2013 more than any other nation.<\/p>\n<p>There are 5.5 million South Africans receiving antiretroviral treatment, whose funding is now in question after Trump suspended the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative contributes more than $400 million (\u20ac384.5 million) a year to South Africa's HIV programmes and nongovernmental organisations, about 17 per cent of the total funding, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, PEPFAR is credited with saving at least 26 million lives since its inception in 2003, according to the UN AIDS agency.<\/p>\n<h2>Impact of Trump freeze<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, a <strong>US<\/strong> federal judge <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//02//14//us-federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-restore-funding-for-foreign-aid-programmes/">ordered the Trump administration<\/strong><\/a> to temporarily lift the funding freeze, while the US Embassy in South Africa said PEPFAR projects would resume under a limited waiver.<\/p>\n<p>However, aid groups dealing with HIV have already shuttered, with closure notices hanging at the entrances and PEPFAR-branded vehicles standing idle. Patients are being diverted to struggling health facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8878924\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//28//number-of-europeans-diagnosed-with-hiv-rose-in-2023-with-new-cases-in-most-countries/">Number of Europeans diagnosed with HIV rose in 2023 with new cases in most countries<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Most of the PEPFAR funding is channelled through non-governmental organisations, which run programmes that complement health care services provided by the government.<\/p>\n<p>For Majola and other HIV patients in the Umzimkhulu region, where unemployment is rife and most people rely on subsistence farming and government welfare grants, the aid freeze has disrupted their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings will be tough around here, and a lot of people will default on their treatment because we really struggle with transport,\" she said. \u201cThe mobile clinics hardly come here\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The freeze has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//10//people-are-going-to-die-hiv-infections-could-surge-if-us-support-is-dropped-unaids-chief-s/">hurt various groups<\/strong><\/a> that can no longer provide treatment, causing an influx of patients to already overstretched public facilities. Along with the medication, these programmes also allowed health personnel to test HIV patients in far-flung villages, which has been a lifeline for many, especially those afraid to visit public facilities due to the social stigma attached to HIV.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9026812\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2025//02//03//donald-trump-and-elon-musk-want-to-dismantle-usaid-which-countries-will-be-hit-hardest/">Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle USAID. Which countries will be hit hardest?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In addition, nearly 15,000 health workers whose salaries are funded through PEPFAR are left wondering if they have lost their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018A matter of life and death\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>About an hour away in the district of Umgungundlovu, which the think tank says has the highest number of HIV cases in South Africa, HIV counsellors gathered in a small office discussing how best to assist patients like Majola.<\/p>\n<p>A manager at a nearby health clinic wondered how to handle the administrative work that is piling up after PEPFAR-funded workers withdrew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who were doing administration and data capturing, whose salaries were funded by PEPFAR, have left,\u201d said the manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the press.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9047748\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//02//11//eu-cant-plug-usaid-funding-gap-including-in-ukraine-commission/">EU can't plug USAID funding gap including in Ukraine, Commission says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cWe are a small facility and we cannot handle such a workload,\u201d the manager said.<\/p>\n<p>Nozuko Ngcaweni has been on HIV treatment for about 30 years. One of her children was also infected and died at age 17. She said the aid suspension already impacted her community and many missed their treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot long ago, we said by 2030, we want to see an HIV-free generation. But if things remain as is, we will not achieve that. 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More than 100 miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration, while 400 are still awaiting rescue, according to Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA).\n\nPolice said they are uncertain how many remain, but that it is likely to be hundreds.\n\nThe mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, has been the scene of a tense standoff between police, miners and members of the local community since November, when authorities first launched an operation to try and force the miners out. Reports say some of them have been underground since July or August last year.\n\nAuthorities say the miners are able to come out and are refusing, but that has been disputed by rights groups and activists, who have criticised police tactics in cutting off the miners' food and water supplies from the surface in an attempt to force them out. \n\nMACUA, which took authorities to court in December to force them to allow food, water and medicine to be sent down to the miners, released two smartphone videos which showed dozens of dead bodies of miners wrapped in plastic, and emaciated survivors pleading for help. The footage could not be independently verified by Euronews.\n\nSouth Africa's minister of police and minister of mineral resources were due to visit the mine on Tuesday. Cabinet minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told reporters in November that the government would not help the miners, which they considered \"criminals\".\n\n|We are not sending help to criminals,\" she said, according to local media. \"We are going to smoke them out. They will come out.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Rescuers on Tuesday pulled several survivors and dead bodies from one of South Africa\u2019s deepest mines, where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped underground for months in an abandoned shaft during a standoff with authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Civic groups representing the miners said that at least 24 bodies and 34 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday. More than 100 miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration, while 400 are still awaiting rescue, according to Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA).<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are uncertain how many remain, but that it is likely to be hundreds.<\/p>\n<p>The mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, has been the scene of a tense standoff between police, miners and members of the local community since November, when authorities first launched an operation to try and force the miners out. Reports say some of them have been underground since July or August last year.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the miners are able to come out and are refusing, but that has been disputed by rights groups and activists, who have criticised police tactics in cutting off the miners' food and water supplies from the surface in an attempt to force them out. <\/p>\n<p>MACUA, which took authorities to court in December to force them to allow food, water and medicine to be sent down to the miners, released two smartphone videos which showed dozens of dead bodies of miners wrapped in plastic, and emaciated survivors pleading for help. The footage could not be independently verified by Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa's minister of police and minister of mineral resources were due to visit the mine on Tuesday. 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The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air estimates that coal-fired power stations kill more than 2,200 South Africans every year and cause thousands of cases of bronchitis and asthma in adults and children annually.\n\n\u201cWe experience air pollution, water pollution and land pollution \u2013 everything is affected by the coal mines. The environment we\u2019re living in is very destructive, so many people are sick,\u201d says Mbali Mathebula, an environmental activist from VEM who lives in the Highveld, an inland region in northeast South Africa. \n\n\u201cCoal is affecting members of the community\u2019s health and comfort, people are living with cancer and respiratory diseases and rely on oxygen and nebulisers just to survive. 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The country has the most carbon-intensive economy in the G20. \n\nThe civil society organisations said the government\u2019s plan to add 1500MW of new coal-fired power was expensive, unnecessary, and a limitation of children\u2019s right to a healthy environment. \n\nCourt says coal power plan is \u2018unlawful and invalid\u2019\n\nThe court ruled in favour of the alliance, saying that the government has failed to properly consider the impact of coal on future generations\u2019 rights.\n\n\u201cThe Rule 53 record, as well as the first and second respondents\u2019 evidence, is ominously silent on any considerations given to the effect that the additional 1 500 MW new coal-fired power will have on the environment and health of the nation, in particular, that of children,\u201d the judgement reads.\n\n\u201cA clear indication that the first and second respondents did not comply with their constitutional obligations in that regard.\u201d\n\nThe ruling also said that the government's decisions - specifically that of the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) -were inconsistent with the constitution, and \u201cunlawful and invalid\". \n\nMantashe and NERSA were ordered to pay the legal fees of those who brought about the case. \n\nA precedent for future climate cases\n\nThe climate campaigners behind the Cancel Coal case say it sets a precedent for future legal challenges against environmentally harmful projects. It also underscores the people of South Africa\u2019s constitutional right to a healthy environment. \n\n\u201cThis High Court ruling is a significant legal victory for ensuring the inclusion of South Africa\u2019s children and youth in decisions shaping our future. It is also a testament to the efforts of CER, as well as the coalition of organisations who\u2019ve been working hard on this case over the past three years,\u201d says Cancel Coal Campaigner at ACA, Sibusiso Mazomba. \n\nMazomba adds that this is only the first step in securing the constitutional right to a healthy environment for children and youth, who often bear the greatest burden from coal\u2019s harmful impacts. \n\n\u201cTrue justice will only be achieved when these rights are fully upheld, ensuring the protection of our lives, environment, and futures.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>South Africa\u2019s High Court has overturned government plans to add 1,500MW of new coal-fired power to the nation\u2019s electricity grid. <\/p>\n<p>In a landmark climate case, Judge Cornelius van der Westhuizen said that the plan was unlawful and invalid because the government failed to consider the potential impact on children\u2019s rights. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Cancel Coal\u2019 case was brought by three youth civil society organisations: the African Climate Alliance (ACA), the Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action (VEM), and the Groundwork Trust, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER). <\/p>\n<h2>Cancel Coal case was a \u2018last resort\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Launched three years ago, the case argued that the government\u2019s energy policy violated several sections of the country\u2019s constitution. <\/p>\n<p>The burning of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//06//close-all-coal-plants-by-2040-to-prevent-climate-chaos-new-report-urges/">coal is one of the biggest contributors to climate change<\/strong><\/a> and has numerous health impacts from water and air pollution. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air estimates that coal-fired power stations kill more than 2,200 South Africans every year and cause thousands of cases of bronchitis and asthma in adults and children annually.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8892768,8892048\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//05//big-polluters-accused-of-hiding-behind-climate-treaties-at-landmark-icj-hearings/">Big polluters accused of hiding behind climate treaties at landmark ICJ hearings<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//05//wales-and-other-uk-universities-are-divesting-from-fossil-fuels-while-the-rest-of-europe-l/">UK universities are divesting from fossil fuels while the rest of Europe lags behind<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cWe experience air pollution, water pollution and land pollution \u2013 everything is affected by the coal mines. The environment we\u2019re living in is very destructive, so many people are sick,\u201d says Mbali Mathebula, an environmental activist from VEM who lives in the Highveld, an inland region in northeast South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoal is affecting members of the community\u2019s health and comfort, people are living with cancer and respiratory diseases and rely on oxygen and nebulisers just to survive. The Cancel Coal case is a last resort; we are saying there should be no new coal power, it is too destructive,\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//06//beacon-of-hope-the-earthshot-prize-winners-2024-revealed-in-star-studded-cape-town-ceremon/">South Africa<\/strong><\/a> is already the seventh biggest coal producer in the world, relying on this fossil fuel for 80 per cent of its electricity. The country has the most carbon-intensive economy in the G20. <\/p>\n<p>The civil society organisations said the government\u2019s plan to add 1500MW of new coal-fired power was expensive, unnecessary, and a limitation of children\u2019s right to a healthy environment. <\/p>\n<h2>Court says coal power plan is \u2018unlawful and invalid\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The court ruled in favour of the alliance, saying that the government has failed to properly consider the impact of coal on future generations\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rule 53 record, as well as the first and second respondents\u2019 evidence, is ominously silent on any considerations given to the effect that the additional 1 500 MW new coal-fired power will have on the environment and health of the nation, in particular, that of children,\u201d the judgement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA clear indication that the first and second respondents did not comply with their constitutional obligations in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7138671875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//89//48//44//808x577_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg/" alt=\"A general view of coal operation area at the Kusile coal-fired power plant near Emalahleni, South Africa.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/384x274_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/640x457_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/750x535_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/828x591_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/1080x771_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/1200x857_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/1920x1371_cmsv2_133b742e-e727-5b00-a333-8a3d9c2a8c1c-8894844.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A general view of coal operation area at the Kusile coal-fired power plant near Emalahleni, South Africa.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Themba Hadebe<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The ruling also said that the government's decisions - specifically that of the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) -were inconsistent with the constitution, and \u201cunlawful and invalid\". <\/p>\n<p>Mantashe and NERSA were ordered to pay the legal fees of those who brought about the case. <\/p>\n<h2>A precedent for future climate cases<\/h2>\n<p>The climate campaigners behind the Cancel Coal case say it sets a precedent for future legal challenges against environmentally harmful projects. It also underscores the people of South Africa\u2019s constitutional <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//11//is-it-high-time-for-europe-to-recognise-the-human-right-to-a-healthy-environment/">right to a healthy environment<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis High Court ruling is a significant legal victory for ensuring the inclusion of South Africa\u2019s children and youth in decisions shaping our future. It is also a testament to the efforts of CER, as well as the coalition of organisations who\u2019ve been working hard on this case over the past three years,\u201d says Cancel Coal Campaigner at ACA, Sibusiso Mazomba. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8888428,8885688\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//03//airlines-are-doing-little-to-switch-to-sustainable-fuels-but-oil-companies-are-at-fault-re/">Airlines are doing little to switch to sustainable fuels, but oil companies are at fault report says<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//12//02//the-worlds-biggest-legal-case-has-just-begun-and-it-is-all-about-climate-change/">The world\u2019s \u2018biggest\u2019 legal case has just begun - and it is all about climate change<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Mazomba adds that this is only the first step in securing the constitutional right to a healthy environment for children and youth, who often bear the greatest burden from coal\u2019s harmful impacts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue justice will only be achieved when these rights are fully upheld, ensuring the protection of our lives, environment, and futures.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733487571,"updatedAt":1733492861,"publishedAt":1733488483,"firstPublishedAt":1733488483,"lastPublishedAt":1733488483,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/48\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_990aa71b-c8c5-5b82-a044-dbcf54f3548c-8894844.jpg","altText":"Steam billows 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MINING","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":14},{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"South African police cut off supplies to illegal miners in a bid to 'smoke them out'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"South Africa cuts off supplies to illegal miners to 'smoke them out'","titleListing2":"South African police cut off supplies to illegal miners in bid to 'smoke them out'","leadin":"Up to 4,000 illegal miners are estimated to be underground in an abandoned mine while South African authorities try to clear them out and arrest them.","summary":"Up to 4,000 illegal miners are estimated to be underground in an abandoned mine while South African authorities try to clear them out and arrest them.","keySentence":"","url":"south-african-police-cut-off-supplies-to-illegal-miners-in-a-bid-to-smoke-them-out","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/14\/south-african-police-cut-off-supplies-to-illegal-miners-in-a-bid-to-smoke-them-out","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province, having cut off their food and water supplies as part of a strategy to \"smoke them out\". \n\nThe miners in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other necessities after police closed off the entrances used to transport their supplies underground. \n\nPolice have spent weeks working to clear the abandoned gold mine, as part of its Vala Umgodi (Close the Hole) operation to round up and arrest illegal miners.\n\nNorth West police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone said information received from those who recently helped bring three miners to the surface indicated that as many as 4,000 miners may be underground. Police have not provided an official estimate.\n\nAt least 1,000 illegal miners \u2014 known locally as zama-zamas \u2014 have surfaced in recent weeks with many reported to be weak, hungry and sickly after going without supplies.\n\nPolice said on Thursday that they were continuing to guard areas around the mine to catch those appearing from underground. A decomposed body was recovered on Thursday, and pathologists were on the scene, said spokesperson Athlenda Mathe.\n\nCabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Wednesday that the government would not send any help to the illegal miners because they were involved in criminality. \n\n\"We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out. They will come out. Criminals are not to be helped. We didn\u2019t send them there,\" Ntshavheni said.\n\nSenior police and defence officials are due to visit the area on Friday to support the operation, according to the authorities. \n\nMining security analysts have questioned the police estimate of the number of zama-zamas underground, and say that about 2,000 is more realistic, local media reported.\n\nIllegal mining is a decades-old problem in South Africa's old gold mining areas, with miners entering closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining deposits.\n\nThe zama-zamas are often from neighbouring countries, and police say the illegal operations involve larger syndicates that employ the miners. \n\nTheir presence has also created tensions with nearby communities, who say that the illegal miners commit crimes ranging from robberies to rape\n\nIn November last year, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed thousands of soldiers to help tackle illegal mining as part of a 492 million rand (\u20ac26 million) operation.\n\nEarlier this month, acting National Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya said that at least 13,690 illegal mining suspects had been arrested across seven provinces since December 2023.\n\nThe Minerals Council South Africa \u2014 an industry advocacy organisation \u2014 has said that illegal mining costs the country's economy tens of billions of rand each year in lost export income, royalties and taxes.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province, having cut off their food and water supplies as part of a strategy to \"smoke them out\". <\/p>\n<p>The miners in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other necessities after police closed off the entrances used to transport their supplies underground. <\/p>\n<p>Police have spent weeks working to clear the abandoned gold mine, as part of its Vala Umgodi (Close the Hole) operation to round up and arrest illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>North West police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone said information received from those who recently helped bring three miners to the surface indicated that as many as 4,000 miners may be underground. Police have not provided an official estimate.<\/p>\n<p>At least 1,000 illegal miners \u2014 known locally as zama-zamas \u2014 have surfaced in recent weeks with many reported to be weak, hungry and sickly after going without supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on Thursday that they were continuing to guard areas around the mine to catch those appearing from underground. A decomposed body was recovered on Thursday, and pathologists were on the scene, said spokesperson Athlenda Mathe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1857042113197707418\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Cabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Wednesday that the government would not send any help to the illegal miners because they were involved in criminality. <\/p>\n<p>\"We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out. They will come out. Criminals are not to be helped. We didn\u2019t send them there,\" Ntshavheni said.<\/p>\n<p>Senior police and defence officials are due to visit the area on Friday to support the operation, according to the authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Mining security analysts have questioned the police estimate of the number of zama-zamas underground, and say that about 2,000 is more realistic, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal mining is a decades-old problem in South Africa's old gold mining areas, with miners entering closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining deposits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//85//18//46//808x539_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg/" alt=\"Volunteer rescue workers and community members leave a mine shaft where illegal miners are trapped in a disused mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/384x256_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/640x427_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/750x500_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/828x552_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/1080x720_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/1200x800_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/18\/46\/1920x1281_cmsv2_e7e3a462-3bea-5955-943f-e71a74691ccf-8851846.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Volunteer rescue workers and community members leave a mine shaft where illegal miners are trapped in a disused mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jerome Delay\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The zama-zamas are often from neighbouring countries, and police say the illegal operations involve larger syndicates that employ the miners. <\/p>\n<p>Their presence has also created tensions with nearby communities, who say that the illegal miners commit crimes ranging from robberies to rape<\/p>\n<p>In November last year, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed thousands of soldiers to help tackle illegal mining as part of a 492 million rand (\u20ac26 million) operation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8505390,8482976\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//06//15//south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosa-re-elected-for-second-term/">South African President Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected for second term<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//06//06//tornadoes-devastate-south-african-town-killing-11-and-displacing-thousands/">Tornadoes devastate South African town, killing 11 and displacing thousands<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Earlier this month, acting National Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya said that at least 13,690 illegal mining suspects had been arrested across seven provinces since December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Minerals Council South Africa \u2014 an industry advocacy organisation \u2014 has said that illegal mining costs the country's economy tens of billions of rand each year in lost export income, royalties and taxes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731592145,"updatedAt":1731596763,"publishedAt":1731596274,"firstPublishedAt":1731596274,"lastPublishedAt":1731596274,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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He is the director of an AIDS research center in Durban, South Africa, who was not part of the research.\n\nThe shots made by US drugmaker Gilead and sold as Sunlenca are approved in the US, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere, but only as a treatment for HIV. \n\nThe company said it is waiting for results of testing in men before seeking permission to use it to protect against infection.\n\n'It eliminates the whole stigma'\n\nThe results in women were published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an AIDS conference in Munich. \n\nGilead paid for the study and some of the researchers are company employees. Because of the surprisingly encouraging results, the study was stopped early and all participants were offered the shots, also known as lenacapavir.\n\nWhile there are other ways to prevent HIV infection, like condoms or daily pills, consistent use has been a problem in Africa.\n\nIn the new study, only about 30 per cent of participants given Gilead's Truvada or Descovy prevention pills actually took them - and that figure dropped over time.\n\nThe prospect of a twice-a-year shot is \"quite revolutionary news\" for our patients, said Thandeka Nkosi, who helped run the Gilead research at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation in Masiphumelele, South Africa. \n\n\"It gives participants a choice and it just eliminates the whole stigma around taking pills\" to prevent HIV.\n\nExperts working to stop the spread of AIDS are excited about the Sunlenca shots but are concerned Gilead hasn\u2019t yet agreed on an affordable price for those who need them the most. \n\nThe company said it would pursue a \"voluntary licensing programme,\" suggesting that only a select number of generic producers would be allowed to make them.\n\n\"Gilead has a tool that could change the trajectory of the HIV epidemic,\" said Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the Geneva-based UN AIDS agency.\n\nShe said her organization urged Gilead to share Sunlenca's patent with a UN-backed program that negotiates broad contracts allowing generic drugmakers to make cheap versions of drugs for poorer countries worldwide. \n\nAs an HIV treatment, the drug costs more than $40,000 (\u20ac36,842) a year in the US, although what individuals pay varies.\n\nWomen most in need of lasting protection\n\nDr Helen Bygrave of Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that the injections could \"reverse the epidemic if it is made available in the countries with the highest rate of new infections\". \n\nShe urged Gilead to publish a price for Sunlenca that would be affordable for all countries.\n\nIn a statement last month, Gilead said it was too early to say how much Sunlenca would cost for prevention in poorer countries.\n\nDr Jared Baeten, Gilead\u2019s senior vice president of clinical development, said the company was already talking to generics manufacturers and understood how \"deeply important it is that we move at speed\".\n\nAnother HIV prevention shot, Apretude, which is given every two months, is approved in some countries, including in Africa. It sells for about $180 (\u20ac166) per patient per year, which is still too pricey for most developing countries.\n\nByanyima said the people who need long-lasting protection the most include women and girls who are victims of domestic violence and gay men in countries where same-sex relationships are criminalized. \n\nAccording to UNAIDS, 46 per cent of new HIV infections globally in 2022 were in women and girls, who were three times more likely to get HIV than males in Africa.\n\nByanyima compared the news about Sunlenca to the discovery decades ago of AIDS drugs that could turn HIV infection from a death sentence into a chronic illness. \n\nBack then, South African President Nelson Mandela suspended patents to allow wider access to the drugs; the price later dropped from about $10,000 (\u20ac9,210) per patient per year to about $50 (\u20ac46).\n\n1.3 million people infected annually\n\nOlwethu Kemele, a health worker at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, predicted the shots could boost the number of people coming in for HIV prevention and slow the virus\u2019 spread. \n\nShe said young women often hide the pills to avoid questions from boyfriends and family members. \"It makes it hard for the girls to continue,\" she said.\n\nIn a report on the state of the global epidemic released this week, UNAIDS said that fewer people were infected with HIV in 2023 than at any point since the late 1980s. \n\nGlobally, HIV infects about 1.3 million people every year and kills more than 600,000, mainly in Africa. \n\nWhile significant progress has been made in Africa, HIV infections are rising in Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.\n\nIn other research presented at the AIDS conference, Andrew Hill of the University of Liverpool and colleagues estimated that once production of Sunlenca is expanded to treat 10 million people, the price should fall to about $40 (\u20ac37) per treatment. \n\nHe said it was critical that health authorities get access to Sunlenca as soon as possible.\n\n\"This is about as close as you can get to an HIV vaccine,\" he said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A jab given twice-yearly to treat AIDs was found to be 100 per cent effective in preventing new infections in women, according to the results of a new study published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers reported that there were no infections in the young women and girls who got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa and Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>In a group given daily prevention pills, roughly 2 per cent ended up catching HIV from infected sex partners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8595974\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//07//23//nearly-40-million-people-living-with-hiv-with-one-aids-death-a-minute-in-2023-new-un-repor/">Nearly 40 million people living with HIV with one AIDs death a minute in 2023, new UN report says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"To see this level of protection is stunning,\" said Salim Abdool Karim of the injections. He is the director of an AIDS research center in Durban, South Africa, who was not part of the research.<\/p>\n<p>The shots made by US drugmaker Gilead and sold as Sunlenca are approved in the US, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere, but only as a treatment for HIV. <\/p>\n<p>The company said it is waiting for results of testing in men before seeking permission to use it to protect against infection.<\/p>\n<h2>'It eliminates the whole stigma'<\/h2>\n<p>The results in women were published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an AIDS conference in Munich. <\/p>\n<p>Gilead paid for the study and some of the researchers are company employees. Because of the surprisingly encouraging results, the study was stopped early and all participants were offered the shots, also known as lenacapavir.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-medium\n widget--align-right\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Gilead has a tool that could change the trajectory of the HIV epidemic.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Winnie Byanyima\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Executive director, UN AIDS agency\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>While there are other ways to prevent HIV infection, like condoms or daily pills, consistent use has been a problem in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In the new study, only about 30 per cent of participants given Gilead's Truvada or Descovy prevention pills actually took them - and that figure dropped over time.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of a twice-a-year shot is \"quite revolutionary news\" for our patients, said Thandeka Nkosi, who helped run the Gilead research at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation in Masiphumelele, South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>\"It gives participants a choice and it just eliminates the whole stigma around taking pills\" to prevent HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Experts working to stop the spread of AIDS are excited about the Sunlenca shots but are concerned Gilead hasn\u2019t yet agreed on an affordable price for those who need them the most. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"6888702\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2022//07//28//are-we-winning-or-losing-our-decades-long-fight-against-hiv-and-aids/">Are we winning or losing our decades-long fight against HIV and AIDS?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The company said it would pursue a \"voluntary licensing programme,\" suggesting that only a select number of generic producers would be allowed to make them.<\/p>\n<p>\"Gilead has a tool that could change the trajectory of the HIV epidemic,\" said Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the Geneva-based UN AIDS agency.<\/p>\n<p>She said her organization urged Gilead to share Sunlenca's patent with a UN-backed program that negotiates broad contracts allowing generic drugmakers to make cheap versions of drugs for poorer countries worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>As an HIV treatment, the drug costs more than $40,000 (\u20ac36,842) a year in the US, although what individuals pay varies.<\/p>\n<h2>Women most in need of lasting protection<\/h2>\n<p>Dr Helen Bygrave of Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that the injections could \"reverse the epidemic if it is made available in the countries with the highest rate of new infections\". <\/p>\n<p>She urged Gilead to publish a price for Sunlenca that would be affordable for all countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement last month, Gilead said it was too early to say how much Sunlenca would cost for prevention in poorer countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8079162\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//12//01//am-i-going-to-die-5-myths-and-misconceptions-about-hiv-and-aids/">World AIDS Day: 5 myths and misconceptions about HIV<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Dr Jared Baeten, Gilead\u2019s senior vice president of clinical development, said the company was already talking to generics manufacturers and understood how \"deeply important it is that we move at speed\".<\/p>\n<p>Another HIV prevention shot, Apretude, which is given every two months, is approved in some countries, including in Africa. 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