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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

South Africa files dossier alleging Israel’s continued breaches of ICJ orders

South Africa has filed a new dossier with the International Court of Justice, asserting that Israel continues to breach binding provisional measures designed to protect…

  • Hasina Kathrada
4 min read
Calls to boycott Dis-Chem are intensifying after major shareholder Mark Saltzman attacked journalist Redi Tlhabi over Gaza on social media.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

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…

  • Hasina Kathrada
7 min read
The Voice of Hind Rajab, the Oscar-nominated film reconstructing the final hours of five-year-old Hind Rajab, will screen in South Africa from this weekend following a global festival run that transformed the production into one of the most politically resonant films of the year
ACADEMY AWARDS

Oscar-nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab comes to SA cinemas

The internationally recognised film reconstructs the final hours of Palestinian child Hind Rajab in Gaza, will screen in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town this May

  • Hasina Kathrada
3 min read
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS ACHPR

Lack of principled African leadership, action in Sudan

What began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the leaders of the SAF and RSF has evolved into widespread abuses, generating the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with…

  • Allan Ngari
  • Laetitia Bader
5 min read
Iran’s advantage lies in its ability to produce content that aligns with platform operations at both speed and scale. Meanwhile, the conflict continues on the ground, where a ceasefire holds unevenly and negotiations remain uncertain.
ANNA HANSELL

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,…

  • Gillian Schutte
7 min read
Hit: Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier, Mayuree Naree, near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack in March 2026. Photo: Royal Thai Navy
CHRISTIANITY

Iran war and Greater Israel Project

The US-Israel war on Iran is disrupting oil trade, pushing up petrol prices and raising concerns over the growing use of religion to justify war

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
3 min read
Ronald Lamola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
DONALD TRUMP

Pretoria summons US ambassador as diplomatic strain grows with Washington

US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, was called in for a formal diplomatic demarche following comments the government described as “undiplomatic”

  • Hasina Kathrada
6 min read
Bracing: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has warned that if the conflict is not resolved soon, it could have serious implications for South Africa. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AMERICAN MILITARY BASES

Mideast war: Treasury rallies to cushion blow

As Iranian conflict rattles oil markets and raises economic risks for South Africa, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is building a scenario plan to assess the implications for…

  • Hasina Kathrada
7 min read
Iranian ambassador Mansour Shakib Mehr. (X)
AMERICAN MILITARY BASES

Iran’s envoy in South Africa defends retaliatory attacks on US bases in the Middle East

Ambassador Mansour Shakib Mehr said Tehran’s actions ‘are directed at military bases used against us’

  • Hasina Kathrada
4 min read
The genocidal mentality of the US and Israel is a supremacist nexus of settler colonialism and endless wars. With Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu presiding, the logic replicates with renewed force. (X)
ALGERIA

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…

  • Sam Husseini
7 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the state of the nation address. (GCIS)
ANC

In Sona, Ramaphosa signals shift from crisis management to consolidation

For the first time in several years, electricity did not dominate the president’s address

  • Hasina Kathrada
7 min read
In his 2026 State of the Nation Address, the president once again committed to economic revitalization. Photo: GCIS
ANC

Ramaphosa talks tough on gangs, corruption

The president said the South African National Defence Force would be deployed to support police in tackling gang violence and illegal mining

  • Hasina Kathrada
6 min read
Going nowhere: President Cyril Ramaphosa had once again weathered an internal push to unseat him before the end of his term in 2027. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

SA 2025: Scenic route from G20 to NGC

This was the year that was — South Africa’s chequered 2025, a year that ends not with resolution, but with reckoning

  • Marlan Padayachee
8 min read
Former international relations minister Naledi Pandor said without confronting material complicity, the initiative risked becoming “pleasant, but ineffectual”. Photo: Hasina Kathrada
ARMS EMBARGO

At Hague Group meeting, frustration over failure of global institutions to constrain Israel’s conduct

Speakers described a system in which legal norms are applied selectively, allowing powerful states and their allies to evade accountability

  • Hasina Kathrada
7 min read
Protesters waving Palestinian flags and posters opposite the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on Tuesday to mark International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide. Photo: Matthew Hirsch
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Protesters demand that Cape Town holocaust centre recognise genocide in Gaza

The vigil also marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

  • Matthew Hirsch
2 min read