The president’s strong stance on Russia’s war could help salvage trade agreement with the US, says deputy secretary
We supported sanctions against the apartheid regime, but should we be boycotting individuals in the arts and sports, when it is their governments that wage wars?
The assurance comes as President Ramaphosa’s office confirmed the panel has started writing its report regarding whether arms were loaded onto the Russian vessel
The panel has completed its investigation as to whether weapons destined for Russia were loaded onto the vessel in Simon’s Town
South Africa’s part in World War I shows the importance of collective memory in recalling the ignored names of those who died in service
A ‘frozen conflict’ would benefit Russia while putting a permanent spanner into Kyiv’s hopes for complete backing from the alliance
The slowdown will probably influence the central bank’s decision on interest rates
Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for Lebensraum
Fasiha Hassan also said the league would agitate for a Brics youth secretariat
The presidency said a provision in the Rome Statute obliged ICC member states to deal with requests for assistance on a confidential basis
Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni suggested the government could demarche the Polish ambassador for diplomatic offence
Ramaphosa’s administration should remain focused on the issue at hand, the commission of inquiry into whether the country — or even more scarily, a rogue element here — supplied arms to Russia
Africa tends to ignore her own problems at home, while doing everything to try and help the rest of the world in putting out their fires
An expanded Brics grouping would be a counterbalance to the West – the United States in particular
A weapons manufacturer on a peace mission. What could possibly go wrong?
South African journalists and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security were stuck in Poland despite the president having earlier met Poland’s leader
Washington has made no such threat, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office says, while probe into Lady R is to remain classified
An inter-ministerial committee wants the summit shifted to another host nation
South Africa’s foreign policy should retain its principled stance over Russia’s war in Ukraine, while also calling for accountable governance globally
The ruling party’s secretary general pushed back against US pressure to pick a side in Russia/Ukraine war
The rand’s fall after the US’s Russian arms claims shows South Africa can’t risk taking a side
The minister of defence said she was tired of anti-Russian phobia in the country
The Russian embassy says the claims are part of a campaign to move South Africa from its non-aligned position on the war in Ukraine
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said the United States should not support a war and rather promote peace
Finland has joined Nato at a critical stage and Putin’s reaction will involve a range of measures, both military and technological
God is in every dark corner, say those who have suffered in Ukraine, Mozambique and the Middle East
International sports bodies are taking wildly varying stances on allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes and teams to compete while the war in Ukraine continues
Moscow is giving fertiliser to Malawi in exchange for support for ending the global sanctions imposed on it
As a country, our struggling economy is hitched to both the prospects of the East and the West. Being frozen out by any of them, would be punishing for all
Much of the global south is neutral on the war in Ukraine, not because they support Russia but because they can’t side with the US and Nato
Anyone still waiting for Pretoria to launch a social media projectile at Moscow is sorely disillusioned
After getting the green light from Washington for tanks, Ukraine’s president is pleading for fighter jets to defend his country from Russia