The US initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission.
The December period is also critically important to key sectors of our economy, such as the tourism and hospitality industries, as well as retail and other consumer-driven industries.
Authoritarian systems reject challenges to themselves – yet just that is happening in Ukraine and Russia, China and Iran
Nomically, the left advocates pluralism and promotes difference, but only within a network of fixed, essentialized identities, and so permissiveness becomes prohibition.
For the first time since the 1960s, anti-imperialism is back on the US left’s agenda. South Africa should follow suit
The M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, have expanded their attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fifa’s boss wants the game to float above ‘ideological battles’. But it’s Fifa’s ideology of greed that steered the World Cup into a desert stinking of money and suffering
About 50% of South Africans say they would relinquish their voting rights if an effective government was guaranteed
With 70% of Nigerians aged under 30 this should happen but the top candidates are 70 and 75 and the third will have to work with politicians the youth want out
A meeting to finalise a Ramaphosa slate was boycotted by some provincial leaders, with those in attendance annoyed by the final list which excluded key allies
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Political parties say the act is restricting their ability to receive external donations
But both advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan have brought applications, to be heard in December, to have the case thrown out as an abuse of process
The president told parliament the plan was being finalised but the commission’s own slight delay may hinder delivery by October 15
Inflation, that ‘problem’ torturing capitalist economies these days, offers us the first example of such policies
The market is the pillar of capitalist ideology, yet it is just another human institution invented and reinvented periodically across human history
Throughout the ‘New Frame’ controversy, holier-than-thou bourgeois-baiters and obsessive players of the race card have shown why the hard left has condemned itself to the political margins
The war in Ukraine is accelerating its contraction and history shows that irreversible decline often follows
As a recent court case in Nelson Mandela Bay shows, the city management appointment process should be purely administrative and stripped of politics
With the induction last week of the Rashid Lombard Archive at the University of the Western Cape his photography and stories will soon be accessible to a new generation.
There was a lot to juggle this weekend, and it wasn’t easy to sidestep political profligacy in favour of McIlroy’s brilliance
There are wars in Africa and Asia and some are rarely commented on in the media, so why is Ukraine different?
The commission, made up of ANC elders, will be charged with drafting the party’s programme of unity and renewal for the next decade
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The party’s NWC is said to have discussed disbanding its Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga provinces, with the North West calling for an extended term
While the Democrats and Republicans use an outdated political playbook, people need protection from the capitalist system itself
Political parties and trade unions are asking the finance minister to address the growing national debt crisis and to extend the R350 grant
Talk is over, the country needs action says Chief Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela ahead of the State of the Nation address
The Gauteng judge president’s words turned prophetic as he came under sustained political attack in his interview for the post of chief justice
The new movement in Chile has significant potential to continue its already ground-breaking march to a new world for all Chileans, and women in particular
An independent legal counsel will investigate allegations made against the Democratic Alliance’s Fritz, and criminal charges are not out of the question
Good party sees political advantage after the suspension of a ‘low-profile’ figure in local government
Power in post-apartheid South Africa lies with the party, the state and capital. The tourism minister masks her complicity with bad governance, and being part of the economic and political elite.
Party insiders say Ramaphosa is unlikely to feel the pinch as a result of Eastern Cape regional conferences pitting Oscar Mabuyane against Babalo Madikizela