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Foreign Policy: South Africa Asserts Its Sovereignty With Clear Stance On Taiwan

Prof. David Monyae|Published 1 month ago

There is a regurgitation of a baseless narrative that a sovereign and independent decision by the government of South Africa that was taken in line with the country’s long-held foreign policy principles is somehow the outcome of clandestine pressure …

Major outcomes and possibilities for the Global South

Published 5 months ago

South African President at 16th BRICS Summit held in Kazan, Russia on 22-24 October, 2024. The BRICS Plus bloc and its growth in all regions in a fracturing multilateral ...

Ruto, Gachagua fallout masks Kenya’s political and economic distress

Published 5 months ago

A STREET vendor reads a local daily newspaper, The Nation, headlined 'Fired' following the impeachment by the Senate of former Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua ...

Fighting graft requires robust institutions, political will, accountability

Published 5 months ago

Deputy President Mashatile addressing the International Anti-Corruption Day commemoration at the University of South Africa on December 12, 2023. Picture: Siyabulela ...

NPA’s vetting saga exposes national security challenges

Published 5 months ago

Advocate Shamila Batohi addresses the media following her appointment as National Director of Public Prosecutions by President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2018. Picture: ...

Youth disenchantment impacts on Swapo’s dwindling popularity

Published 5 months ago

SWAPO supporters celebrate the party’s landslide victory following Namibia’s first democratic election in November 1989. While SWAPO has maintained substantial support ...

No compromise in supporting the Sahrawi, Palestine struggles

Shannon Ebrahim|Published 6 months ago

Saharawi delegates take part in the Extraordinary Congress of the Polisario Front (PF) at the Sahrawi refugee camp of Dakhla. Members of the international community ...

‘No friend of the working class, poor’

Dr Trevor Ngwane|Published 6 months ago

Then Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers the 2019 budget speech. Mboweni became minister of Labour and after showing what he could do to change the country’s ...

A fresh new face for 50-year-old Frelimo could be a boost for Mozambique

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Mozambique nationals cast casting their vote in the general elections at the Consulate General of Mozambique in Johannesburg. After 50 years in power, Frelimo’s ...

Frontline States’ solidarity with Palestinian struggle intensifies

Wesley Seale|Published 6 months ago

Regina Mundi, Soweto Prayer service in solidarity with Palestine, on October 6, 2024. As South Africans, we continue to draw parallels between our struggle against ...

Mbeki’s conflict resolution proposals a way forward for AU?

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

An exterior view of the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the African Union ...

Rejection of Mchunu’s ‘voice of reason’ an indictment on KZN leadership

Bheki Mngomezulu|Published 6 months ago

Left to right, Sihle Zikalala , the ANC’s Provincial chairperson in 2017, Nkosazana Dlamini, an ANC presidential candidate in 2017 and then Premier of KZN Willies ...

‘Coalitions must always be about serving all of our people’

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

MK Members protest as President Cyril Ramaphosa on July 18, 2024 convenes a joint sitting of the newly established two Houses of Parliament to deliver the Opening ...

Politicians sowing racial discord must be held accountable

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Community members hold weapons as they stand at a road block in Phoenix Township, on July 15, 2021 to prevent looters from reaching the community. – Picture: Guillem ...

Zimbabwe’s complicated legacy of land reform: a path to justice or betrayal?

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Desperately seeking economic stability and the recovery of the country’s agricultural sector, Mnangagwa is using the compensation card ...

US bolsters waning influence through global destabilisation

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Palestinians react at a hospital where casualties of Israeli bombardment on al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip were transported on April 8, 2024, as the war ...

Arab world’s silence informed by its domestic fears

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Saudi journalist, Global Opinions columnist for the Washington Post, and former editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel Jamal Khashoggi offers remarks during POMED’s ...

Frelimo’s Chapo set to lead amid a myriad of challenges

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

By Sizo NkalaMozambique is set to hold its seventh presidential and parliamentary elections on October 9 which will see 17 million registered voters choose the country’s ...

Zille, DA exploits ANC turmoil to ‘push own political agenda’

Bheki Mngomezulu|Published 6 months ago

DA Federal chairperson, Helen Zille, attends the proceedings of its urgent application challenging the designation of former Western Cape Judge President, John Hlophe, ...

Anglican same-sex blessings ban at odds with Constitution

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba, right, with the life-size statue of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu during Human Rights Month in March, ...