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Cyril Ramaphosa urges BRICS leaders to take bold steps for a mutual, shared and equitable prosperity

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:19:00 GMT

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa at the expanded meeting of BRICS leaders during the 16th BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia October 23, 2024. Picture: Grigory Sysoev, brics-russia2024. Cyril RamaphosaAllow me to begin by thanking President Putin and the people of Russia for hosting the 16th BRICS Summit in this beautiful city of Kazan.

Good news stories of 2023

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 06:00:00 GMT

Picture: Luis Tato / AFP / Taken on August 18, 2023 – KENYA: Young Maasai men perform their traditional jumping dance as they gather during the Eunoto ceremony in a remote area near Kilgoris on August 18. Hundreds of young men take part in the tribal ceremony, a rite of passage that marks the transition from Moran (young warrior) to adulthood as junior elders.

Food insecurity in Africa: Impact of Nato-driven politics

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:12:00 GMT

Picture: PACOME PABANDJI (AFP/File) - In a previous report, the UN said 42% of Central Africans were in urgent need of food in order to head off a humanitarian tragedy brought on by the ongoing violence. By Thabang LeshabaneA great proportion of African communities have over the decades relied on grain as an imperative source of food and sustenance.

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UN, ICC impotency emboldens perpetrators of war crimes

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 03:30:00 GMT

Picture: Picture: Oupa Mokoena / African News Agency (ANA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. By Dr André Thomashausen South Africa, last Wednesday, announced in an official statement: ‘’Israel has committed war crimes and needs to be held responsible for its actions by the International Criminal Court and the international community as a whole.

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Global anti-apartheid movement aims to hold Israel accountable

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:56:00 GMT

Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA) - A new global anti-apartheid movement against Israel is set to be formed. By Roshan DadooUnder the openly far right, Israeli government, the decades long violence and settler-colonial oppression against indigenous Palestinians is taking ever more brutal forms and with greater impunity.

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict tests SA’s foreign policy

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 08:23:00 GMT

Picture: AFP - Gaza has been burning for the last few days since Hamas launched an attack on Israel. By Prof Bheki Mngomezulu The architecture of South Africa’s foreign policy was crafted between 1990 and 1994. ANC documents envisioned how the country’s post-apartheid foreign policy posture would be reconfigured.

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US policy in Asia has played a role in revival of Russia-China-North Korea axis

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:00:00 GMT

Picture: Stock image - As such, the war in Ukraine seems to have brought North Korea and Russia closer, especially as they find themselves under US-imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions, writes the author. By Dr Sizo Nkala There has been a marked increase in diplomatic intensity between China, Russia and North Korea in the recent past in response to rapidly shifting geopolitical dynamics.

BRICS: 15th Summit was a watershed moment

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 07:10:00 GMT

Picture: Itumeleng English / African News Agency (ANA) - The BRICS Summit was held at the Sandton Convention Centre held in Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. By David Monyae The extravaganza of the 15th BRICS Summit has come and gone. The rendezvous in “Africa’s richest square mile”, Sandton, north of Johannesburg, was quite a diplomatic spectacle which brought together 60 developing countries from across the Global South, and was graced by UN Secretary-General Antonio Gute. . .

De-dollarisation needs more debate

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:35:00 GMT

Picture: Itumeleng English / African News Agency (ANA) - The BRICS summit week can be realistically said to have been very successful under the circumstances, says the writer. By Professor Bonke DumisaThe BRICS economic grouping, currently comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, concluded its three-day annual gathering on Thursday, in Sandton.

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BRICS: Economy to dominate agenda in shaping a new world order

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:32:00 GMT

Picture: Stock image - Over the past several years, despite the creation of the New Development Bank and some of the initiatives to boost economic ties between BRICS members, there has been a sense that BRICS, in a post-Covid world, needs a more profound programme to attract nations from the Global South, the authors write.

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When TV crime mirrors daily life in Modi's India

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 06:33:00 GMT

Picture: Supplied - India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi can go abroad and promote India as the world's largest democracy all he likes, but the situation at home tells the real story, writes the author. By Ruth Pollard"Kohrra" is the latest Indian crime thriller to capture the attention of Netflix viewers, now in its third week at No.

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Challenging SA’s moral standing on African affairs

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:45:00 GMT

File picture: Kopano Tlape/GCIS - President Cyril Ramaphosa with African Union Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat at luncheon meeting at his Mahlamba Ndlopfu residence in Pretoria, South Africa. By Dr Omololu FagbadeboSouth Africa is a paradox. As a rainbow nation with racial diversity, it is also a society characterised by internal socio-political divisions and inequality.

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Does Aborted Mutiny Spell the End for Putin?

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 02:45:00 GMT

Picture: Mikhail Metzel /SPUTNI/AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening of new health facilities via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on February 15, 2023. By John FefferThe former hotdog salesman rose about as high as he could. He became a caterer to the Russian elite and a confidante of the president.

The world's financial architecture is failing Africa

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:15:00 GMT

Photo: REUTERS/Esa Alexander - A man counts Nigerian naira notes in a market place as people struggle with the economic hardship and cashflow problems ahead of Nigeria's Presidential elections, in Yola, Nigeria, February 22, 2023. By Akinwumi A. AdesinaThe United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, recently sounded an ominous alarm bell.

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China and Palestine: no to ‘piecemeal crisis management’

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Picture: Jade GAO / POOL / AFP - China's President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2023. By Ramzy BaroudConsidering Washington’s unparalleled importance to Israel, on the one hand, and the Arab-Muslim world’s significance to China on the other, the future is easy to foresee.

Attempt to derail BRICS Summit a litmus test for SA

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:35:00 GMT

Picture: Supplied - South Africa has no interest in gambling on its future role and opportunities in the BRICS and should ensure that the BRICS Summit is welcome and safe in South Africa, the writer says. By Dr André ThomashausenThe arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is a point of heated debate because Putin has publicly announced that he would attend in person the summit of the BRICS nations in August in South Africa.

A New Agenda for Peace: Making Peace Plural and Healing Historical Traumas

Sat, 06 May 2023 10:07:00 GMT

Wyatt Souers/via Peoples Dispatch: Thousands marched in Washington DC on March 18 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and to demand peace in Ukraine. By Youssef MahmoudThe United Nations (UN) secretary-general’s report “Our Common Agenda” was launched on September 10, 2021 in response to member states’ request for recommendations to strengthen global governance, 75 years after the creation of the United Nations.

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Brazil’s Lula reaches out to China and Russia, stoking US unease

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 03:30:00 GMT

Picture: Sergio Lima / AFP) - In this file photo taken on February 3, 2023, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is presented with the credentials of China's ambassador to Brazi,l Zhu Qingqiao, at Planalto Palace in BrasiliaBy Ishaan Tharoor In hindsight, it may have been a high-water mark in the relationship between the administrations in Washington and Brasília.

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Children Cried, Racism Thrived, Democracy Died – 10 Terrible Days in Tennessee

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:00:00 GMT

Picture: REUTERS/Cheney Orr//File Photo - Protesters gather outside the Tennessee State Capitol to call for an end to gun violence and support stronger gun laws after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U. S. March 30, 2023. By Steven HarperOn March 27, the Covenant School killer in Nashville used two semi-automatic weapons and a handgun to end the lives of three nine-year-old students, the head of school, a substitute teacher, and a maintenance worker.

10 Years, 40 Meetings: What to Expect From Xi Jinping’s Visit to Russia for Talks With Putin

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:41:00 GMT

REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina - Russian President Vladimir Putin attempts to shake hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. By Ilya TsukanovChinese President Xi Jinping will embark on a three-day state visit to Russia on Monday at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

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The urbanity of evil: 20 years after the US invasion of Iraq

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 07:22:00 GMT

Picture: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - A U. S. soldier watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad, April 9, 2003. By Norman Solomon Vast quantities of lies from top US government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets that eagerly boosted those lies are offering retrospectives.

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Parallel executives make for difficult diplomatic relations

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:49:00 GMT

Picture: https://www. freepik. com/By Dr André Thomashausen In 2017, Cyril Ramaphosa was the dream candidate of the EU. He simply could do no wrong. Every EU Ambassador in Pretoria praised him as the one who would save the country from its abyss of the “lost Zuma years”. Angela Merkel from Germany, especially, included Ramaphosa in her most strategic “compound” plans and walked him holding hands into high-level meetings that were closed to other African leaders.

‘I saw death’: Rescuers in rebel-held Syria plead for help after quake

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:30:00 GMT

Picture: Khalil Ashawi/REUTERS – A rescuer carries a child, following an earthquake, in rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria February 6, 2023. By Sarah Dadouch BEIRUT – For more than a decade, residents of an opposition-held enclave in northwestern Syria have endured bombardment, brutal fighting and a seemingly endless humanitarian crisis, haunted by the fear that no one cares.

No peace deal on the horizon in Russo-Ukrainian war

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:00:00 GMT

Graphic: Timothy Alexander / African News Agency (ANA)By David MonyaeTHE Russo-Ukrainian war, which began on February 24 last year, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine, will reach its first anniversary in a few weeks. It seems the warring parties are not close to reaching a peace agreement that would bring the war to an end.

Apartheid Israel's unjust reign must end now!

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:55:00 GMT

By Iqbal Jassat For media to reduce Israel's bloody atrocities against Palestinians as mere "violence between Israel/Palestine" is to detract from the truth of the ugly reality of the Zionist Frankenstein. As South Africans who were repeatedly warned by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to not be fence-sitters and "neutral" in the struggle against apartheid, it is a damn pity that some of our media houses have forgotten his bravery and sage advise.

The history of anti-Black misogyny shaping coverage of Megan Thee Stallion

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:02:00 GMT

File picture: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni - Megan Thee Stallion speaks after receiving the Best Female Hip Hop Artist award during the BET Awards at Microsoft theatre in Los Angeles, California, U. S. , June 27, 2021. By Sarah OlutolaOn Dec. 23, rapper Tory Lanez (whose legal name is Daystar Peterson) was found guilty in the shooting of rapper Megan Pete, otherwise known as Megan Thee Stallion, in both of her feet in July 2020.

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Germany Forsakes Justice for Palestine

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:15:00 GMT

By Iqbal JassatOne of the blessings of South Africa's foreign policy vis-a-vis Palestine is that it stands miles apart from Germany's extremist right-wing bias in favour of Israel. Of course as advocates and solidarity activists for Palestine's freedom struggle against Zionism's brutal occupation, we do argue that South Africa can do a lot more to isolate and sanction Israel.

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They put out an SOS for toys for migrant kids. Thousands responded.

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 01:00:00 GMT

Picture: REUTERS/Issei KatoBy Theresa VargasThe young boy in the red and black jacket didn't need to look through the toys sitting on the blanket in front of him. As other children walked past stuffed animals, puzzles and building blocks, looking for items that called to them, he made his way straight to a dump truck almost half his size.

Pearl Harbour: site of Black heroism and protests against racism

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:00:00 GMT

Picture: REUTERS/US Navy/Newscom – The USS West Virginia burns and sinks after the attack on Pearl Harbour, December 7, 1941. By Matthew F DelmontOn January 4, 1942, more than 300 people filled the pews at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for a memorial service to honour Julius Ellsberry, a 20-year-old mess attendant first class killed during the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Algeria needs to bring legislative acts to common standard before joining BRICS

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:30:00 GMT

Algeria needs to harmonize its legislation with BRICS nations before joining the group, which could further benefit the Algerian economy, the governor of the country's capital of Algiers, Mohamed Abdenour Rabehi, told Sputnik on Saturday. "Algeria would definitely like to join BRICS. The question is whether we will be accepted, because there are certain obligations.