Kenya's defiant youth committed to ousting impotent Ruto

Kim Heller|Published

The Ruto administration is unlikely to find its humanity and humility in the current battleground that is playing out in the streets of Kenya. The very generation ...

Mandela's legacy: SA in dire need of decisive, principled leadership

Dr Reneva Fourie|Published

On this Mandela Day, let us honour his legacy not only with remembrance but with resolve. Let us demand accountability and competence. Let us insist that those who ...

'The judiciary must accept that its integrity is earned through fearless accountability'

Clyde N.S. Ramalaine|Published

Public trust is not sustained by denial, but by the courage to confront complicity. To restore what remains of that trust, the judiciary must accept that its integrity ...

SAPS Turmoil: Cyril Ramaphosa Banks On Latest Probe To Pacify A Restless Nation

Dr Reneva Fourie|Published

President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment of judicial commission of inquiry will mean nothing if it does not deliver swift and fearless action, especially since no ...

Attack on Koeberg: How MK's Special Ops unit shattered the apartheid regime's invincibility

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For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC president ...

Ethnic cleansing awaits North Darfur’s besieged, starving population

Pavan Kulkarni|Published

The spectre of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher, ...

BRICS Summit 2025: There is no alternative to multilateralism

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva|Published

There is an urgent need to recommit to diplomacy and rebuild the foundations of true multilateralism — one capable of answering the outcry of a humanity fearful ...

The National Dialogue must not be derailed by political gaslighting

Zamikhaya Maseti|Published

It compels us, the ordinary and long-suffering South Africans, the real stakeholders in the future of this nation, to seize the agenda of the National Dialogue. ...

SAPS turmoil another test for a dithering Commander-in-Chief

Prof. Bheki Mngomezulu|Published

General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s revelations have tacitly invoked important discussions about the state of our country’s security. Implicitly, it implores the president ...

How the DA's Lobbying Agenda Undermines South African Sovereignty

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The DA's lobbying campaigns are not neutral. They are part of a broader ideological project portraying South Africa as governed by racial populists and economic ...

BRICS countries unite to blunt Trump's bullying

Kim Heller|Published

The re-engineering of power relations is vital for BRICS, as U. S. dollar dependence creates and reinforces economic power inequalities and imbalances, keeping the ...

Mkhwanazi Versus Mchunu: The Controversial Role of the Political Killings Task Team in KZN

Mary de Haas|Published

Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has, contrary to SAPS protocol, been using the media to build his image as a crime-fighting cop, winning public support. However, his recent ...

The blurred lines of justice: Police Leadership Must Come Clean

Dr Reneva Fourie|Published

What is at stake here is not just the credibility of one minister or one commissioner. It is the credibility of the state itself. The South African Police Service ...

Foreign Policy: How the DA's Lobbying Agenda Undermines South Africa's Sovereignty

Clyde N.S. Ramalaine|Published

The DA’s foreign lobbying poses a direct threat to South Africa’s sovereignty by enabling external actors, especially Western governments, to shape domestic outcomes ...

Revolution or Regression: The Impact of Private Sector Control on SA's Developmental State

Khaya Magaxa|Published

The state is obsessed with public-private partnerships and is vehemently opposed to public-public partnerships. It can only mean that there are no profits and kickbacks ...

Red Wedding Warfare: How Israel Turned War Into A Spectacle To Conceal The Gaza Genocide

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola|Published

Israeli military aggression toward Iran is applauded, but its sustained violence against Palestinians is ignored and even justified. What we are witnessing is not ...

UN at a Crossroads: Birth Pangs of a New World Order

Marco Cordeiro Pires|Published

It is necessary to strive for the birth of a new world order that guarantees all people enjoy the realisation of all the promises made 80 years ago when the UN was ...

Washington Agreement masks complex regional dynamics

Dr. Sizo Nkala|Published

What is needed in the DRC is state-building, which the agreement does not address. If its dismal misadventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are anything to go ...

SA's Debt Crisis: A Crippling Embrace of the World Bank

Zamikhaya Maseti|Published

Development has been outsourced to multilateral lenders with no stake in our sovereignty. The borrowing continues, but each loan chips away at our autonomy, our ...