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The Expropriation Act could conflict with international treaty obligations

South Africa has investment agreements with the China, the US and the EU, most of which require full compensation at market value if property is expropriated

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Trump wants the Panama Canal and how he could get it

Its history shows how he could have grounds to take control of it as part of his America first programme

The private aircraft carrying US businessman Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7, 2025. Trump Jr made a  visit to Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory coveted by Trump Sr and which hopes to one day be independent but remains dependent on Copenhagen for now. (Photo by Emil Stach / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP)

Why Greenland is strategically vital to US interests

The island holds one of the world’s largest deposits of rare earth minerals, essential for technologies like batteries, wind turbines, guided missiles, and radar systems

Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024, amid parliamentary discussion over a proposed amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

South Africa should condemn Iraq’s proposed child marriage amendments

If Iraq legalises child marriage for girls as young as nine, South Africa must lead efforts to impose sanctions

African National Congress (ANC) president and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa looks on during a door-to-door campaign in Ekurhuleni on March 10, 2024 ahead of the South African general elections scheduled for May 29, 2024. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

Flag burning and treasonous obsessions in the face of real problems

In the aftermath of the DA’s election advert, Cyril Ramaphosa’s symbolic outrage sparks debate amidst broader concerns over governance failures

Faith-baiting: Flowers are laid to respect the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, for which Isis has claimed responsibility. Photo: Contributor/Getty Images

Let’s make a worthy God in our own image

If we make God in our image, let it not be the genocidal maniac worthy only of contempt but rather a God of kindness, worthy of our worship

Review: Ballies playing with phones – The Honor 90

I had the chance to play with the Honor 90 over the weekend, so what did I think? Starting with the box opening, one of my favourite parts, “you never know what you’re gonna…

Reggae nights: UB40 – Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue – perform
in Cape Town last month. Photo: Dereck Green/Gallo Images

IF THERE’S ONE THING I DID THE OTHER WEEK …

Douglas White shares his experience of seeing UB40 on 3 June