Xenophobia offers a simple but misleading explanation for a complex crisis. It reframes mass unemployment, failing public services and weak governance as a question of belonging
Donald Trump is not Harry Truman, 2026 is not 1945 and Iran is emphatically not Japan
The ANC said US ambassador to SA, Leo Brent Bozell III ‘is not yet an ambassador to SA’
US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, was called in for a formal diplomatic demarche following comments the government described as “undiplomatic”
With oil prices climbing to $120 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz shut, analysts say the G7 missed a critical opportunity to push for peace in the escalating US-Israel-Iran conflict
US President Donald Trump warned members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms or face ‘certain death’.
The only evidence Muller presents that “Prisons abroad are being run efficiently and humanely with much clearer accountability” are the examples of the GEO company and the unrelated privatisation of cemeteries. Let us be clear about GEO – it is an example of what we do not want our prisons to become
The Trump administration slapped South Africa with a 30% import tariff, effective last August
The US has not had a permanent ambassador to South Africa since January 2025
After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in
The Puerto Rican superstar’s half-time show was a beautiful act of joy and resistance for black and brown people everywhere
Trevor Noah’s final Grammys moment sparked outrage from Trump, highlighting the uneasy relationship between satire, politics and contro
South Africa’s long-squeezed motorists might find fresh relief next month as recent datafrom the Central Energy Fund (CEF) data points to meaningful fuel price cuts in February — a rare bright spot in a world rattled by geopolitical theatrics and jittery oil markets. In an unexpected twist, the rand has staged its strongest run in […]
The emphasis on might and control risks further weakening America’s position as a dependable global partner in diplomatic settings
By his own account, America’s mission in Venezuela is to seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves
Prisons are assets with huge demand and consume a large portion of public capital
He embodies the raw, unfiltered, chaotic rhythm of youth, a generation unwilling to be scripted by the old guard, impatient with hierarchy, hungry for immediacy and determined to seize the stage without waiting their turn
Nonetheless, the US president has unashamedly admitted that this operation in Venezuela is all about oil
The South African Communist Party joined a protest march to the US embassy in Pretoria, accusing Washington of state terrorism
The two parties condemned the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife as a violation of international law
South Africa’s government said the US actions were a ‘a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which mandates that all member states refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”
Rasool is perhaps one of the few South African political figures able to articulate the global consequences of misused narratives
To call Mogadishu ‘garbage’ while extolling Botswana’s diamonds in the same sentence is not diplomacy; it is duplicity
Diplomacy, domestic strains and a test of political authority underlined this year’s presidency
African wildlife policy must be led by African scientists and communities, not curated for private facilities an ocean away
Even the rugby unions who can’t stand him, would not blink an eye if they could have him as their coach
The myth of “white genocide” is deployed as a rhetorical weapon, simultaneously stoking fear, resentment, and a sense of urgency among segments of the American populace
The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott
This policy did not emerge in a vacuum; it is part of a larger wave of populism reshaping global governance
In a national address, Ramaphosa said South Africa would attend the 2026 summit in Miami despite the US president’s suggestions otherwise
The G20 Summit was a moment that announced to the world that the Global South is ready not only to contribute to global discourse but to shape it
South Africa’s risk is not expulsion, which the G20’s rules do not allow, but a year of disruption that could blunt the gains of its presidency