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President Donald Trump meets with President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Editorial: Trump’s anti-SA crusade must be stopped

The madman of the White House must be stopped in his tracks

Trump thump: President Cyril Ramaphosa remained calm during his visit to the Oval Office, despite US President Donald Trump trying to provoke him with accusations of white genocide in South Africa. Photos: GCIS

Ramaphosa’s big Trump trade-off

But he secured tentative trade talks as negotiations with officials on a pact between South Africa and the US were set to continue

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Photo: Sourced

The strategy behind the public playground hounding of Zelenskyy

The media was in shock after the televised public humiliation of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. US President Donald Trump and Vice-president JD Vance…

Deluded: JD Vance has lurched to the hard right since the publication of his autobiography. Photo: White House

US state and the capture of JD Vance

The United States’ vice-president has risen with lightning speed from hardscrabble beginnings

Throw rock at him: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in New Jersey. Photo: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

The Trump presidential campaign a billionaires’ ballot

In the fight are Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bizos, who put pressure on the editors of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, X’s Elon Musk and Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel

The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Manufacturing a presidential candidate: The case of Kamala Harris

The US vice-president needs to come up with a message that resonates with the white middle and working class to win them over in this election

Britain’s former interior minister Suella Braverman speaks during the “NatCon” national conservatism conference gathering of hard-right European politicians at the Claridge hotel in Brussels on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)

Libertarianism, liberalism and conservatism: A response to JK Vance and Suella Braverman

Braverman and Vance criticise liberal influences, but their conservatism avoids accountability