Shifting geopolitics is highlighting new and old arenas of conflict and violations of international law
The convoy is carrying baby formula, antibiotics, bandages and staple foods and will test whether Israel’s blockade will again choke civilian access to the Strip
The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians
More than 190 members of the media have now been killed in the war in Gaza, some of them deliberately targeted and assassinated
As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, ‘If you are neutral in the face of suffering, you are on the side of the oppressor’
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
The state once enforced exclusion through law, now racial inequality is decentralised and enforced by private actors through economics, technology, the law, capital and technology
My position is that journalists have a duty to raise serious allegations — especially when they involve governments, foreign policy or international law
The Israeli leader knows how to say ‘ceasefire’ in English, but he governs in the syntax of siege
US involvement in the Middle East and Israel’s attacks on Iran and its retaliation make the US military base in Qatar a target
The grouping, made up of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, is a challenge to the West on Israel’s war in Gaza
Our exports to Israel contradict our anti-genocide stance, fuelling Israel’s war efforts
Attacking Iran is framed by colonial narratives that erase its rich intellectual history, justifying violence through a ‘conquest foretold’
A secular, post-colonial future is the only viable alternative
to Israel’s colonial Zionism versus Iran’s theocratic rule
South Africa spearheading a Global South coalition to enforce international law against Israel will attract a backlash but it’s the right thing to do
Unlike Iran, Israel is not a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The march ended an hour outside of Cairo when we were bussed back to the city
The climate activist also advocates for human rights, such as those of Palestinians being killed by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza
The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist
The ministry of international relations called for the de-escalition of the conflict between Israel and Iran
The United Nations Security Council needs reform. The US has, since 1946, exercised its veto more than 80 times, many of those to block resolutions critical of Israel
More than 2,000 people – 55 from South Africa – have converged in Egypt in a show of international solidarity
Until now, Europe has been the observer giving rhetorical support for Palestinian rights while arming and trading with Israel, which negates those rights
More journalists have been killed since 7 October 2023 than during the two World Wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined
As Cape Town continues its investment in digital security infrastructure, the challenge lies in balancing innovation with accountability, and enforcement with the protection of fundamental rights
Ramaphosa’s Washington DC visit, the US deal with the Houthis and its lifting sanctions against Syria suggests he is
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
Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000 have been killed since 2023
The genocidal state asks the West for help to fight the fires while its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.
South Africa argued that a 50-day aid blockade was further proof of the genocide of the Palestinian population
The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.
The move reflects France’s strategic recalibration amid rising domestic pressures, European fragmentation over Gaza and a widening rift with Washington.