Foreign Policy: South Africa Asserts Its Sovereignty With Clear Stance On Taiwan
There is a regurgitation of a baseless narrative that a sovereign and independent decision by the government of South Africa that was taken in line with the country’s ...
Peacekeeping: New Marching Orders Needed for Embattled SA National Defence Force
The mortal remains of 14 SANDF members who lost their lives in the eastern DRC were laid to rest at different places across South Africa. The SANDF is a shadow of ...
Navigating a New Era: Tough Road Ahead for New AU Commission Chief
New African Union Commission chairperson Mahamoud Ali Youssouf (R) talks to a delegate ahead of the 38th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa on February 15, ...
Silencing The Guns: A Daunting Task for AU Commission’s Youssouf
The newly elected chairperson of the Africa Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf (C) smiles after election results during the 38th African Union (AU) Summit, at ...
SACP Opposes Neo-Liberal Austerity Agenda, Advocates for Wealth Tax
Protesters demonstrating against proposed budget and social funding cuts ahead of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's budget speech in Cape Town on February 21, ...
A Decade of #RhodesMustFall: The Long Road To Higher Education Transformation
University of Cape Town students celebrate the removal of Cecil John Rhodes statue on April 9, 2015. The statue was removed after a month of rolling protests. The ...
Decoding the Impact of Trump 2. 0 on BRICS and the Global South
Then BRICS Chairperson President Cyril Ramaphosa flanked (from left) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ...
Building Social Cohesion: National Dialogue Should Not Repeat TRC Mistakes
President Nelson Mandela (L) receives five volumes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in Pretoria on October ...
SONA exposes politics driving ANC’s class collaboration
President Cyril Ramaphosa in discussion with Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana before replying to the SONA debate in the Cape Town City Hall on February 13, 2025. ...
Poor Leadership at the Centre of SA’s National Security Crisis
FLEEING residents from Sake, Eastern DRC alongside SANDF peacekeepers on February 7, 2024. Until recently, South Africa claimed a proud record of peace-making and ...
Right-wing’s false narrative ‘harmful to building social cohesion’
African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela smiles broadly as he casts his historic vote on April 27, 1994 in Ohlange, outside Durban, during South ...
No Easy Fix As The DRC’s Humanitarian Crisis Escalates
A member of the M23 armed group walk alongside residents through a street of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on January 27, 2025. The grand project of de-escalating ...
SONA 2025: Promises of quality service delivery a litmus test for GNU
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering his State of the Nation Address in the Cape Town City Hall on February 6, 2025. Whilst the President noted the need to address ...
Proxies and plunder: The ongoing crisis in the DRC
Child labour at a gold mine in South Kivu, DRC Congo. The battle for the Eastern DRC is intrinsically linked to the West's unquenchable yearning for the region's ...
Trump's Re-Election: A New Era of Re-Awakening for Africa?
Members of the African Union (AU) Executive Council at its 45th Ordinary Session meeting held on July 18-19, 2024 in Accra, Ghana. The time is now for Africa to ...
SONA 2025: Bickering GNU Must Step Up With Decisive Leadership
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa at the playing of the national anthem before delivering his Opening of Parliament Address (OPA) for the Seventh Administration on July ...
Navigating Diplomatic, Military Tightrope Key To DRC’s Peace, Stability Roadmap
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa (left), President of Zimbabwe and SADC Chairperson Emmerson Mnangagwa and SADC Executive Secretary Elias Magosi at the Southern ...
Discontent over Expropriation Act ‘a self-created mini-crisis’
President Cyril Ramaphosa with the Government of National Unity leaders at a dinner hosted by the President in Cape Town on September 11, 2024. If the GNU delivers ...
Decoding The DRC Crisis: The M23 Rebellion And Its Historical Roots
A MEMBER of the M23 armed group greets a civilian on a street in Goma on January 29, 2025. ...