Tony Blair

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2019-09-17 18:19:00

Former president Thabo Mbeki has paid glowing tribute to his Zimbabwean counterpart, Robert Mugabe, at a memorial organised by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, calling him a “fellow combatant” who had made a massive contribution to the liberation of South Africa....

The hidden evils of “social cohesion”

OpinionSteven Friedman | 2019-08-07 08:41:00

Wouldn’t it be good if we all lived in an ordered society in which everyone did what they were told, we all had the same values and acted in the...

It’s time for a reckoning for Kagame and his Western cheerleaders

AfricaTimothy B Reid | 2019-04-23 00:00:00

As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, we cannot keep excusing the crimes of Rwanda’s current government - and the...

Britain's May clashes with Blair over Brexit

WorldAgency | 2018-12-16 14:28:00

An extraordinary public row broke out Sunday between British Prime Minister Theresa May and former Labour party leader Tony Blair over her Brexit...

Elitism remains the enemy of democracy

OpinionRichard Pithouse | 2018-11-09 00:00:00

For millions of people, South Africa is what Frantz Fanon called “a nonviable society”. Systemic unemployment makes it somewhere between...

'Love Corbyn, hate Brexit': Labour faces Brexit split

WorldJames Pheby | 2018-09-25 07:16:00

Britain's main opposition Labour Party is bracing for a tumultuous debate on the toxic issue of Brexit at its annual conference on Tuesday amid...

DA internal debate lays bare the fallacy behind its diversity claims

OpinionLukhona Mnguni | 2018-04-05 12:33:00

The Democratic Alliance has described the death of Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as “the passing of a true freedom fighter and an iconic South...

Tony Blair has been damned, but is still defending the Iraq war

WorldAlice Ritchie | 2016-07-08 00:00:00

Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Wednesday made a passionate defence of the 2003 war in Iraq, after a long-awaited official inquiry...

Chilcot report: Tony Blair's government accused of using bogus evidence to launch 2003 Iraq invasion

NewsShafik Mandhai | 2016-07-05 12:37:00

Zab Mustefa was still in high school when she made the 660km trip from Glasgow to London in February 2003 in the hope her voice could help prevent...

Blair should have answered for arms deal bribes - critic

NationalSapa | 2014-10-06 16:41:00

Former British prime minister Tony Blair should have been summoned to testify at the Seriti commission of inquiry, arms deal critic Terry...

Mbeki: Blair plotted military intervention to remove Mugabe

NationalDavid Smith | 2013-11-28 10:09:00

Tony Blair and former South African president Thabo Mbeki clashed on Wednesday over claims that Britain had been prepared to use military force to...

Glencore sweetens Xstrata offer

BusinessSimon Goodley | 2012-09-14 11:24:00

Finally, it took the intervention of Tony Blair to break the impasse – a standoff that almost everyone assumed had ended the £56-billion...

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