FEROCIOUS FLOODS SHOW OUR SYSTEMS’ BETRAYAL OF THE MOST VULNERABLE

Flooding in the Kruger National Park, which straddles Limpopo and Mpumalanga. [Image: Inside Metros]

We are just barely concluding the first month of the New Year, yet the magnitude of devastation that’s unfolded could span a lifetime. In a mere ten days, parts of South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Eswatini have been ravaged by an entire year’s worth of rain. The severe flooding has been merciless, killing over 100 […]

UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY SHOULD STOP BEING MISLED BY EU’S WAR-MONGERS

ZELENSKY AND EU FLAG - IMAGE: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to be caught between a rock and hard place. Publicly, he repeatedly calls for the war to end – immediately. However, methinks his biggest fault-line can be traced in his insistence that the war in Ukraine, which broke out in 2022 at the height of significant geopolitical differences between Moscow […]

WE DARE NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO TAKE AWAY OUR AMUSEMENT

They, our people, us collectively, we Blacks, have lost purpose for our lives, and those that still have purpose for their lives, starved to the periphery of insignificance. A friend, who will remain anonymous but is a journalist of note, made me laugh last night (Friday January 30, 2026). Says my journalist bosom friend: “Ngwenya […]