Latest articles on Barack Obama

Will Biden and Harris help us breathe again?

Opinion Suntosh R Pillay - 14 Nov 2020

The United States’ newly elected leaders, Joe Biden and Kamala Devi Harris, must help recalibrate a global politics of hope and empathy

Finding my faith in Trump’s America

Africa Jakki Kerubo - 3 Nov 2020

From the heady days of Obama’s inauguration to the everyday fears of living while black, Jakki Kerubo had a front-row seat to one of the most turbulent periods in US history

The journalist who was shot in cold blood

Africa Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime - 18 Jun 2020

Ahmed Divela was one of Ghana’s most fearless investigative journalists. This edited excerpt about his killing is from Faces of Assassination

We cannot reform ourselves out of the times we are in

Opinion Mukoma Wa Ngugi - 1 Jun 2020

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated

After disastrous Zuma years, Ramaphosa must provide foreign policy clarity

Opinion Robert Shivambu - 20 May 2020

For a country that is guided by ubuntu, South Africa has a record of embarrassing international blunders

What Bernie Sanders needs to learn from black voters in South Africa

Analysis Nomalanga Mkhize - 8 Mar 2020

Senator Sanders must explicitly demonstrate that a US government that can guarantee universal healthcare is the best path to building long-term black wealth

US presidential campaign 2020: The Democratic conundrum

Analysis Charles R Stith - 2 Mar 2020

As Super Tuesday looms, there are five candidates left in the Democratic race. But the party must ensure it selects someone who will be able to defeat incumbent Donald Trump

Valeria Luiselli tells stories to shame us

Article Bongani Kona - 14 Feb 2020

Over and over again she writes about the lost children picked up on the United States border

SA to US: Hurt us and it’ll hurt you

Article Thando Maeko - 14 Feb 2020

South Africa’s preferred trade status is likely to be removed, which means exports will cost more

JP Mika is a Congolese artist in full bloom

Article Riason Naidoo - 5 Feb 2020

The painter, who hails from the DRC, is currently presenting his first solo exhibition outside his home country in Paris

Soleimani air strike: Why this is a dangerous escalation of US assassination policy

Article Luca Trenta - 12 Jan 2020

The Trump administration is only the latest to push the boundaries of the law to take out foreign adversaries

Soleimani killing, US strategic incoherence

Article Richard N Haass - 10 Jan 2020

Given the general's standing, Iran is unlikely to back down

How Big Data swung Senegal’s vote

Africa Simon Allison - 6 Sep 2019

From a house in Dakar, ex-Obama staffers ran a top-secret data analysis unit that transformed incumbent Macky Sall’s presidential campaign

US Democratic frontrunner Biden drops in polls after debate

Article Agency - 2 Jul 2019

Biden, a former vice president under Barack Obama, still polls the highest at 22% among the two-dozen contenders for the Democratic nomination

Biden to hit campaign trail before blue-collar supporters

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Apr 2019

For his first public event since announcing his candidacy last Thursday, Biden chose Pennsylvania, the state where he was born 76 years ago

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ConCourt asked to rule that Zuma must testify for 10 days next year

emma balfour - 4 Dec 2020

It is Zondo's legal end game and will leave the former president, his supporters and those implicated in state capture to increasingly play fast and loose at imputing political motive to the commission

National

This is how the SIU catches crooks

Athandiwe Saba - 3 Dec 2020

Athandiwe Saba talked to the Special Investigating Unit’s Andy Mothibi about its caseload, including 1 000 Covid contracts

National

FNB dragged into bribery claims

khaya koko - 3 Dec 2020

Allegations of bribery against the bank’s chief executive, Jacques Celliers, thrown up in a separate court case

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Special Reports

Dr Sumy Thomas: Deciphering the human puzzle, from the inside out

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

The Discovery Foundation MGH Fellowship Award recipient for 2020 will focus on internal medicine, particularly the endocrine system of patients affected by HIV

Special Reports

Touching lives through innovation

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

Africa has a high youth population that adapts to technology quickly, and this phenomenon is something which should be taken advantage of

Special Reports

Festive Reading

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

In The Whistleblowers, Mandy Wiener talks to a wide range of the people who have revealed corruption and malfeasance in government and business

Special Reports

Centre for Women & Gender Studies

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The CWGS aims to resuscitate the histories of African women from all walks of life in an intellectual cleansing/ukuhlambulula of her story

Special Reports

Greening the Future

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The awards are a way of encouraging progress and celebrating those who wake up every day and work to make this country a better more sustainable place

Special Reports

Failing to learn the lessons? The impact of Covid-19 on a Broken and Unequal Education System

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

If the president was serious about fixing basic education, he would appoint his most competent minister with a powerful mandate to start fixing it

Special Reports

National Science and Technology Forum

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

It's an independent SETI platform, an essential element of an active democracy and an important part of the collaboration process needed in SETI

Special Reports

Milestones over the NSTF’s 25-year history

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

The organisation celebrates its Silver Jubilee as an established player in the NSI and as promoter and influencer of SET and innovation in South Africa