Joel Pollak
latest news & developments
Ramaphosa to press Trump on attending G20 summit, racial redress
The presidency believes the US president knows his invective against South Africa is devoid of truth
Lamola: Trump invited to G20, but attendance up to him to decide
The foreign minister reiterated that the US president’s offer of refugee status for Afrikaners was not made within the international definition of asylum
International relations department concerned by US calls for policy change in SA
The US State Department has said it will seek changes after ambassador is kicked out
South Africa refutes US accusation of ‘sinister’ ties with Iran
The presidency said the SA-US relationship was in flux and Ramaphosa would not rush to name a new ambassador
South Africa’s presidency confirms ‘regrettable’ expulsion of ambassador to US Ebrahim Rasool
The move, which marks a further deterioration of diplomatic relations between the two countries, was announced by US secretary of state Marco Rubio in a post on X late on Friday
Ramaphosa and co in the crosshairs of pro-Israel lobbyists
Three leaders’ strong words on the Trump administration’s threat to civilised norms and values in the international arena has attracted blowback from the right
Liberal collusion with Trump’s racism
As the US president turns on South Africa it is time to take a wider view of domestic complicity with his racism
Cheap thriller
In this era of virtual-reality combat games, pinball is a hopelessly outdated anachronism that astonishingly continues to capture a small but significant share of the games…
Classified by the past
<b>Review: </b> <i>South African Indian Writings in English</i> Edited by Rajendra Chetty (Madiba Publishers)
Literary delight
<b>Review: </b><i>The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature</i>, edited by Amit Chaudhuri, is 638 pages of joy, writes Joel Pollak.
Peace process must go public
‘Humanly impoverishing." That is how Palestinian intellectual Edward Said once described the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting the despair with which many view the…
A crossover of Afro-Jewish soul
Neshima’s recipe for reconciliation is to seek inspiration not solely in Jewish tradition or in South African culture, but in both at once, writes Joel Pollak.
Cheese and change
<b>Review:</b> Darrel Bristow-Bovey (Zebra), <i>I Moved Your Cheese </i>