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Opinion

Jacob Zuma’s battle to retain his ANC membership part of a long game

Opinion|Published 5 months ago

Former president Jacob Zuma resisted attempts by the ANC to compel him to appear virtually for his disciplinary hearing.  Picture: Itumeleng English/ Independent ...

National Democratic Revolution’s unfinished business a conundrum for struggle allies

Opinion|Published 5 months ago

SACP spokesperson and Central Committee member Alex Mashilo and ANC National spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri appear at a media briefing at the ANC headquarters ...

Jacob Zuma’s battle to retain his ANC membership part of a long game

Opinion|Published 5 months ago

Former president Jacob Zuma resisted attempts by the ANC to compel him to appear virtually for his disciplinary hearing.  Picture: Itumeleng English/ Independent ...

SSA’s internal turmoil poses a grave threat to national security

Opinion|Published 5 months ago

If the South African government is serious about the safety of its people it needs professional people to work for the SSA, not politically connected individuals ...

A fresh new face for 50-year-old Frelimo could be a boost for Mozambique

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Mozambique nationals cast casting their vote in the general elections at the Consulate General of Mozambique in Johannesburg. After 50 years in power, Frelimo’s ...

Mbeki’s conflict resolution proposals a way forward for AU?

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

An exterior view of the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the African Union ...

‘Coalitions must always be about serving all of our people’

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

MK Members protest as President Cyril Ramaphosa on July 18, 2024 convenes a joint sitting of the newly established two Houses of Parliament to deliver the Opening ...

Politicians sowing racial discord must be held accountable

Opinion|Published 6 months ago

Community members hold weapons as they stand at a road block in Phoenix Township, on July 15, 2021 to prevent looters from reaching the community. – Picture: Guillem ...

Zimbabwe’s complicated legacy of land reform: a path to justice or betrayal?

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Desperately seeking economic stability and the recovery of the country’s agricultural sector, Mnangagwa is using the compensation card ...

Instead of a climate villain, livestock can be a solution with legs

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Maasai herders watch their cattle in Tanzania. For places where livestock is deeply embedded in livelihoods and culture, it is critical to see these farm animals ...

US bolsters waning influence through global destabilisation

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Palestinians react at a hospital where casualties of Israeli bombardment on al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip were transported on April 8, 2024, as the war ...

Arab world’s silence informed by its domestic fears

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Saudi journalist, Global Opinions columnist for the Washington Post, and former editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel Jamal Khashoggi offers remarks during POMED’s ...

Frelimo’s Chapo set to lead amid a myriad of challenges

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

By Sizo NkalaMozambique is set to hold its seventh presidential and parliamentary elections on October 9 which will see 17 million registered voters choose the country’s ...

Anglican same-sex blessings ban at odds with Constitution

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba, right, with the life-size statue of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu during Human Rights Month in March, ...

All eyes on UN Security Council while African Union loses its way

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Philemon Yang (centre), President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the first plenary meeting of the seventy-ninth session ...

Biden’s destructive Israel Policy has led us to the brink of War on Iran

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Projectiles above Jerusalem, on October 1, as Iran launches a missile attack on Israel. Biden has been out of his depth throughout this crisis, relying on political ...

How Western media lets Israel get away with murder in Lebanon and Gaza

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

A man cries over the shrouded corpse of a child killed in an overnight Israeli strike, in the yard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central ...

Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as president of Mexico

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Claudia Sheinbaum addressing the Zócalo on October 1. Mexico’s first female president has vowed to continue and deepen the project of the Fourth Transformation started ...

Israel’s ideology of genocide must be confronted and stopped

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the United General Assembly and shows maps of the Middle East on September 27, 2023. Israel’s violent extremists ...

‘Neoliberal policy trajectory threatens the ANC’s legitimacy’

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

It is still too early to assess the impact of this decision, but there are signs that we might be following the same troubled path as countries that have adopted ...

The calculated destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Left, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh (green scrubs), attends to a patient injured during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Dr Al-Bursh was one of the many doctors that the Israelis ...

Biden’s UNGA address espousing democracy and co-operation a sharp contrast with reality

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

Biden addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session. Biden’s final address to the United Nations as president was riddled with falsehoods and ...

A death sentence for African asylum seekers in Israel

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

African migrants are not welcome in Israel. In 2013, a fence was put up along Israel’s border with Egypt to stop the flood of migration from Africa, the writer says. ...

Urgent reform of the UN Security Council is the only route to global peace and stability – Cyril Ramaphosa

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

President Cyril Ramaphosa in a courtesy meeting with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutteres, New York, September 22, 2024. ‘South Africans ...

Ending conflict in DRC, Sudan, lifting sanctions against Zimbabwe key priorities for Angola

Opinion|Published 7 months ago

João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola, addresses the Summit of the Future. The peoples of our planet have longed for peaceful coexistence ...