NETANYAHU’S REJECTION OF TRUMP’S “BOARD OF PEACE” IS A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR US FOREIGN POLICY
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s blatant rejection of President Trump’s much hailed Board of Peace reveals a major factor in bilateral relations between Washing and Tel Aviv: The tails is wagging the dog! Several weeks ago President Trump boasted that his Israeli counterpart, Netanyahu, no doubt has his ear. The assertion followed doubts that Netanyahu […]
CHINA’S “GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT” MODEL IS A CATALYST FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC GOOD
This year marks five years since the founding by Chinese President Xi Jinping of the much-heralded Global Development Initiative (GDI). Five years ago, addressing the thorny issue of global development, President Xi came up with the idea of the GDI during the general debate of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly. In only […]
DISGRACED KARIM KHAN, EXODUS FROM THE ICC AND THE DEMISE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
The dismissal a fortnight ago of one Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is nothing short of good riddance! Finally, he’s gone. Gone with his bias. To the Majority World, Khan was modern day’s face of neo-colonialism. He was an irritant to Africa and the Global South, and utterly vexatious […]
CHINESE BUSINESSES IN EKURHULENI “GIVING BACK, SHARING WARMTH AND GROWING TOGETHER” WITH NEEDY COMMUNITIES
They came in droves – from every square inch of a working-class community called Malibelinye, loosely translated meaning “Let us be one”. The community is part of the sprawling scale of impoverishment, hardship and poverty that characterize life in this part of South Africa’s key Metro east of Johannesburg, which is better-known as Ekurhuleni. Still […]
SAUDI ARABIA’S SIGNING “ABRAHAMS ACCORDS” SPELLS DOOM FOR PALESTINIANS
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President Donald Trump’s brokered nuclear deal between the US and Saudi Arabia poses more danger to world peace at the behest of sectarian interests that propels the international community dangerously closer to a world war. The news of this selfish and careless deal – replete with arrogance of power and might – will highly likely […]
SA VERY LUCKY TO HAVE A “HUGELY CREDIBLE IEC” MANAGING ELECTIONS
South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is in full swing preparing for local government elections in November. Theirs is a fundamental pillar of the country’s nascent democracy, replete with its imperfections. As I will highlight below, theirs can also be a thankless job. At every interval in our country’s democratic trajectory, the IEC causes all […]
BRICS IS A SPECTACULAR FLOP, UNLESS IT RISES TO GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES
When BRIC incorporated South Africa in 2010 and added “S” at the end of its acronym – turning it into BRICS – many in International Relations believed something formidable was being birthed by the Global South in order to finally counter Western hegemony. The initial members of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South […]
BAFANA-BAFANA’S HISTORIC WORLD CUP HEROICS RALLY OUR BELOVED MZANSI TOGETHER
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Nelson Mandela once intimated about the role of sport in society, saying – and I paraphrase – that sport unites people like no other. This week, amidst a lingering atmosphere of national doom and to a certain extent gloom itself, Bafana Bafana reignited a South African spirit of oneness that has successfully propelled a fractious […]
UKRAINE-POLAND FALLOUT THREATENS NATO’S PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
This week, SA’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Ronald Lamola, hosted his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski in Pretoria to give effect to their joint desire for closer ties as per their Davos, Switzerland visit, undertaking during the World Economic Forum. The bilateral meeting at the OR Tambo Building – DIRCO’s HQ in SA’s […]
CELEBRATION OF THE “GREAT AND GLORIOUS” COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA’S 105TH ANNIVERSARY
The founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) 105 years ago – during a time when the nation was beset by internal troubles and external aggression and the people impoverished and weak – “opened a historic great change that has turned the world upside down”. In fact, it has been “105 years of unremitting […]
ZEN Holdings is a Finalist in the Nedbank Oliver Top Empowerment Awards 2026
ZEN Holdings was honoured to be a finalist at the recent Nedbank Oliver Top Empowerment Awards 2026. For 25 years, these prestigious awards have recognised organisations that demonstrate leadership in economic transformation, empowerment, and inclusive growth. During the evening, I had the opportunity to speak with Diana Kgaje, Director of ZEN Holdings, whose passion for […]
IMMIGRATION BATTLE: THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY CONQUERED
Erudite celebrity comedian Trevor Noah summed up very wisely the root causes of South Africa’s immigration woes, pointing at what socialist politician oftentimes refer to as “bread and butter issues”. It’s all about economics, damnit, was basically Noah’s wise findings from his lived experience. For as long as things are going right, no local ever […]