Latest articles on Switzerland

Soft targets: The killing of Olaf Palme and Dulcie September

Opinion Raymond van Diemel - 16 Dec 2020

What was behind the assassinations in the 1980s of two key anti-apartheid figures: Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, and senior ANC official, Dulcie September?

Swiss company accused of tax dodging in Zimbabwe

Africa Tatenda Chitagu & Will Fitzgibbon - 3 Sep 2020

Zimbabwe’s tax authority said ABB, one of Switzerland’s most profitable companies, avoided paying millions of dollars to the economically crippled country

Trump trial opens with fiery clashes over witnesses

Article Michael Mathes & Paul Handley - 22 Jan 2020

The two sides squared off in fiery exchanges that circled around the procedures for the trial and gave the Democrats an opportunity to spell out their arguments for Trump's guilt on national television

Trump rejects climate ‘prophets of doom’ as Thunberg warns Davos

Article Sebastian Smith & Stuart Williams - 21 Jan 2020

The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming laid bare

Sporting world mourns death of ‘true legend’ Niki Lauda

Article Julia Zappei - 22 May 2019

The legendary formula one driver died at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland on Monday night surrounded by his closest family members

Ready or not? Britain’s ‘no deal’ planning

Article Agency - 27 Mar 2019

Ahead of April 12, Britain has begun to put plans into place to cushion their potential push out of the European Union

Red Cross: Cyclone Idai survivors face ‘ticking bomb’ of disease

Article Nina Larson - 25 Mar 2019

While aid workers have been rushing to bring emergency aid to the hundreds of thousands of affected people, there is a need to focus on sanitation

Lens turns on Swiss neutrality

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 14 Sep 2018

An artist questions the relationship between Switzerland and apartheid South Africa

Switzerland challenges US tariffs at WTO

Article Agency - 10 Jul 2018

The Swiss economic affairs ministry says it has formally asked the US for "consultations" over tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium

Rwanda can’t achieve reconciliation without fixing its democracy

Africa Noel Twagiramungu - 29 Apr 2018

As Rwanda marks the 24th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, much more needs to be done to unite the country

These five countries are conduits for the world’s biggest tax havens

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Jul 2017

These countries funnel major corporate money into secret offshore tax shelters, according to a new study.

The world delelas Africa at its own peril

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Sep 2016

'I did not see a future, as viewed from a Global North perspective, that exists outside the capitalist paradigm’s devouring of human lives.'

Switzerland shuts border as asylum seekers say their pleas have been ignored

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Aug 2016

Several hundred refugees have slept on towels and blankets in the park near Como’s train station since the Swiss clampdown began in mid-July.

Clockwork politics won’t tick in SA

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Dec 2015

It’s tempting, but the Swiss system that limits lawmakers’ clout isn’t realistic in this country.

Amid the deafening silence are bits and pieces of God

Article Staff Reporter - 15 May 2015

Maybe God also dwells in the small mercies of strangers, in the aha moments when humans connect deeply.

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Soft targets: The killing of Olaf Palme and Dulcie September

Swiss company accused of tax dodging in Zimbabwe

Trump trial opens with fiery clashes over witnesses

Trump rejects climate ‘prophets of doom’ as Thunberg warns Davos

Sporting world mourns death of ‘true legend’ Niki Lauda

Ready or not? Britain’s ‘no deal’ planning

Red Cross: Cyclone Idai survivors face ‘ticking bomb’ of disease

Lens turns on Swiss neutrality

Switzerland challenges US tariffs at WTO

Rwanda can’t achieve reconciliation without fixing its democracy

These five countries are conduits for the world’s biggest tax havens

The world delelas Africa at its own peril

Switzerland shuts border as asylum seekers say their pleas have been ignored

Clockwork politics won’t tick in SA

Amid the deafening silence are bits and pieces of God

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