African Development Bank warns that economic growth could drop to 0.5% next year
The $400 million the United States congress removed from a list of funding programmes the Trump administration wants to cut doesn’t cancel the cuts to HIV and TB programmes made in February
The Israeli leader knows how to say ‘ceasefire’ in English, but he governs in the syntax of siege
The country isn’t getting extra money from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria; it has to use cash from a grant it has already been awarded and was cut by 16% in June
Julius Malema and Donald Trump are alarmingly similar – charismatic ‘leaders’ with questionable character whose interventions appeal to emotions but won’t fix the economy
South Africa’s commitment to a foreign policy of non-alignment and Cyril Ramaphosa’s experience with negotiations to end apartheid serve as an example
In an America awash with leering cruelty, Inyo, a beautiful record by an extraordinary musician, is finally heard after two decades in the vault
Donald Trump’s ‘solution’ to South Africa avoiding the tariff hike – move production to the US – is nothing more than economic blackmail
In the right-wing world of Donald Trump, New York City mayoral candidate is Zohran Mamdani, an immigrant with cultural
roots in East and Southern Africa
I find myself in Trump’s MAGA, which is more accurately MAWA – Make America White Again
The trade truce between the US and China might be fragile and conditional but it’s a step towards dialogue and stability amid ongoing rivalry
The ministry of international relations called for the de-escalition of the conflict between Israel and Iran
Both men possess an ability to command attention and generate loyalty through their unconventional, often incendiary, approaches to politics
South Africa needs a diverse group of allies and partners in a world undergoing seismic geopolitical changes
We object to the Afrikaner homelands of Orania and Kleinfontein, but in reality ‘private’ cities and towns are being established all over South Africa – and in other parts of the world such as Honduras
Most rejections by European countries and the US are based on ‘reasonable doubts about the visa applicants’ intention to return home’. Many Africans believe otherwise
There is no factual evidence that deindustrialisation, poverty, inequality and unemployment is caused by black economic empowerment, as argued by William Gumede
South Africa must rid itself of issues that prevent a fair, rights-based approach to people’s mobility
The party has bristled at billionaire Johann Rupert’s remarks that the Cape Flats are the epicentre of South Africa’s violent crime problem
What can Musk offer and what price are we willing to pay?
The Economic Freedom Fighters insist on the use of the struggle song as a rallying cry ahead of the polls
The president said the low growth was a function of the slow transfer of the means of production to black South Africans
As government clinics take on HIV patients who were previously treated by Pepfar-funded projects, the treatment of conditions like diabetes and heart disease will come under pressure
The FW de Klerk Foundation affirms that no South African citizen is being persecuted on the basis of race
Countries in Africa will continue to be pawns, and have to bow to the US, unless we work collectively to build our economic heft and better the lives of our people
As part of the delegation who met US President Donald Trump, the South African billionaire used facts and honesty to speak power to power
The statistics from the first three months of the year show an overall drop in crime but gender-based violence continued to be a concern
Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation
Cyril Ramaposa showed the world that turning the other cheek does work, but Trump does not have the emotional intelligence to recognise this
No rational person should want to live in a world in which the president of a sovereign nation is compelled to prostrate themselves in front of another; or bring along their favourite golfers as if they are rare gifts to a feudal lord
But he secured tentative trade talks as negotiations with officials on a pact between South Africa and the US were set to continue
The white man, failing to maintain his hegemonic “manhood” in post-apartheid South Africa, seeks to reclaim it within the idiocy that is Trump’s version of masculinity