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Gaza, philanthropy and power: Dis-Chem drawn into online political storm
Calls to boycott Dis-Chem are intensifying after major shareholder Mark Saltzman attacked journalist Redi Tlhabi over Gaza on social media. The confrontation has sparked wider…
Iran is winning the social media war
Humour, provocation and localisation: Iran’s new digital diplomacy
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,…
Editorial: The high cost of war
The war in the Middle East isn’t coming to our doorstep- it is already here. You will feel it at the pumps, in the supermarket aisles and in your beer mug. The ripple effect of…
Khamenei killing puts limits of self-defence under UN Charter to the test
The United Nations Charter prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, the only recognised exception being…
How the US government sabotaged the genocide convention orders against Israel
South Africa can move to get more emergency orders from the International Court of Justice. The UN General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace power can overcome the US government’s…
Venezuela is the US message to China
Nonetheless, the US president has unashamedly admitted that this operation in Venezuela is all about oil
Nobel Peace Prize’s credibility on the line – again
Should the peace prize committee embrace integrity, it would have few options to either confer the 2025 award on Yemen’s Houthi or admit defeat and cancel it.
Israel’s strike on Doha targets diplomacy and the rules of law
The attacks was the culmination of months of planning, political narrative and expansionist strategy
Genocide: Israel intentionally starving children to death in Gaza
The Israeli government, politicians and military have stated that all transfers of humanitarian aid – food, equipment, fuel, electricity and water – to Gaza must be stopped
Netanyahu’s doctrine: Divide, delay, deny
The Israeli leader knows how to say ‘ceasefire’ in English, but he governs in the syntax of siege
Middle East’s masked hegemonies: Tyrants wrestle in the name of salvation
A secular, post-colonial future is the only viable alternative to Israel’s colonial Zionism versus Iran’s theocratic rule
Israel’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions
The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist
Is Trump decoupling from Netanyahu?
Ramaphosa’s Washington DC visit, the US deal with the Houthis and its lifting sanctions against Syria suggests he is
Could Ramaphosa make a refugee deal with Trump fly?
Our president, a skilled negotiator, can offer to broker a compromise between Israel and Palestine and take awkward asylum seekers off the US president’s hands