UN WARNS OF ANOTHER WAR CRISIS IN SUDAN
On July 3 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis may take a turn for the worse. New battle lines are forming around the city of El Obeid in northwest Sudan for a possible replay of the October genocide and ethnic cleansing at El Fasher, Sudan. Speaking […]
LET SENSE PREVAIL: LOBBYING AND CORRUPTION ARE NOT THE SAME
Do not even try to suggest synonymity. On the matter now threatened between ActionSA’s Michael Beaumont and Tony Leon’s private company Resolve Communications, lobbying has suddenly been sprung up to be mistakenly interchangeable by the untutored to mean the same thing as corruption. The two are expediently now cast as neck to neck in the […]
SALGA RESPONDS TO NATIONAL TREASURY’S TEMPORARY WITHHOLDING OF JULY 2026 EQUITABLE SHARE TRANSFERS TO SELECTED MUNICIPALITIES
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has noted National Treasury’s announcement regarding the temporary withholding of the July 2026 Local Government Equitable Share transfers to selected municipalities in terms of Section 216(2) of the Constitution and Section 38 of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA). While SALGA acknowledges measures being taken to promote sound […]
EXAMINING AFRICAN MEDIA’S COVERAGE OF SA’S IMMIGRATION CRISIS
We have to reexamine the role and responsibilities of African media coverage of the recent 30 June protest marches in South Africa. We have seen this happen in the 1980s. South Africa had one of the biggest concentration of foreign correspondents. It was a turbulent time. When journalists “parachute in” to cover a story, they […]
DBE CONGRATULATES LIMPOPO LEARNERS REPRESENTING SA AT THE ROBOTICS FOR GOOD YOUTH CHALLENGE GRAND FINALE IN SWITZERLAND
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) congratulates two outstanding learner teams from Limpopo Province who are proudly representing South Africa at the prestigious Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Grand Finale, taking place from 7–10 July 2026 at the Palexpo International Exhibition and Convention Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The two teams Robo-Kidz from Mashupye Tladi Primary […]
MAKE THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRE THE GATEWAY FOR WORLD DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE
Looking at the sweep of history, one sees that when empires go down, the trigger is often a failed military operation—an assault, a siege, a war. This observation was made today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, to draw out the import of some of today’s leading current events and set […]