Creator
Gillian Schutte
Gillian Schutte is a South African writer, filmmaker and political analyst. She specialises in African politics, geopolitics, multipolarity, media power, Western imperialism and the unfinished question of African sovereignty in post-apartheid South Africa.
How the IMF squeezes Africa to keep Ukraine’s war economy alive
The World Bank and IMF have exposed the political nature of scarcity. Deficits receive permission when they serve Western strategy.
The brilliance of Iran’s governance structure
The sheer brilliance of Iran’s three-tiered governance structure
PAP, Traoré and the farce of Pan-Africanism without power
The farce lies in the performance of Pan-Africanism without power. It lies in institutions that speak of unity while African economies remain exposed to rating agencies, foreign…
Is Ngcukaitobi being set up against black empowerment?
The Bar will invoke the cab-rank rule, which generally requires counsel to accept a brief in a field where they practise, even when they dislike the client or cause. Yet the rule…
Iran stands firm at Hormuz while Washington drives the world economy to its knees
Iran has drawn the line at Hormuz through sovereignty, anti-colonial memory and strategic endurance. Washington, Israel and Europe continue to answer with war, siege and sanctions
White workers earn 380% more than blacks
On Workers’ Day 2026, the typical white worker still stands far above the typical black African worker in a labour market built through conquest, land theft and racial rule
Iran’s Lego offensive vs NED’s butt-naked demonocracy wars
The Lego blocks have done what a thousand NGO reports cannot do. They have made it clear that the emperor is butt naked.
The great white farmer myth distorts black agrarian input
When foreign governments, organisations or political networks speak about offering South African farmers land, visas or farming opportunities abroad, they should define farming…
Errol Musk drags the white genocide myth to Russia’s door
Errol Musk has dragged a racist myth to Russia’s door. Russia should close that door politely, firmly and publicly
Iran, Trump’s threats and the Brics security test
United States President Donald Trump has turned Iran-US negotiations into a test of Brics power after threatening to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants unless Tehran accepts…
Burkina Faso is right to regulate NGOs
The West does not have a moral claim over African security. African states retain the right to choose partners according to their own historical interests. A multipolar world…
Russian Embassy distances state from Errol Musk farmer relocation claims
The Russian Embassy has moved to counter media speculation around Errol Musk’s visit to Russia, stressing that no farmer relocation programme exists and that the discussions…
The widescale abuse of Ukraine’s children by the State
Coverage of Ukrainian children often fixes blame on Russia and leaves the conduct of the Ukrainian government in the background, even though the evidence of exploitation, forced…
Tehran and Arak under chemical siege
Israel chose targets at the heart of domestic survival because its planners know that fuel in a capital powers ambulances, clinics, refrigeration, generators, pumping systems,…
Brics, the GNU and the erasure of African consciousness
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They…