THE END IS NIGH FOR THE UKRAINE WAR AS PRESIDENT TRUMP FLEXES HIS MUSCLE
US President Donald Trump is rapidly proving to be a man of his words. Love or loathe him, the straight-talking Republican Party leader and a man who received a huge endorsement for his electioneering messages is someone who can be described as “what you see is what you get”. President Trump stunned Washington’s allies and […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MISGUIDED RANT REVEALS SA’S PERSISTENT RACIAL DIVISIONS
This week’s ill-informed rant by the US President Donald Trump is not in a vacuum. It derives its oxygen from the DA, AfriForum and their ilk who have openly cried out to the West and the US in particular to intervene in democratic South Africa’s internal affairs. Like AfriForum, the DA has played a significant […]
IT’S TIME TO CONFRONT RWANDA’S STRONGMAN KAGAME TO LEAVE THE DRC
The grave situation that continues to unravel in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lays bare Africa’s distorted faults of progress since the defeat of colonialism and the dawn of independent governance and freedom. Despite the continent’s vast wealth in natural resources, Africa remains the least developed of all the world’s continents and is […]
PALESTINE OFFERS PRESIDENT TRUMP THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS PROMISE FOR PEACE
For once, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – sparred from the devastation caused by the US-supplied Israeli tanks, drones and automatic gunfire – are flocking back to what were once their habitable neighbourhoods. Everything, literally, has been lost in almost 16 months of sheer annihilation, characterized by the death of more than 47 000 Palestinians who […]
CHINESE NEW YEAR RECEPTION DISPLAYS AN EXCITING WAY OF LIFE THROUGH FOOD, SONG AND DANCE
It was a New Year’s celebration like no other: pomp and ceremony laced with the simplicity that displayed human love, camaraderie and fellowship as dozens of revellers from diverse backgrounds basked in the sunshine of a truly Chinese-style reception. Led by Amb Wu Peng, the Chinese embassy in South Africa held the New Year reception […]
LAME DUCK PRESIDENT BIDEN’S DECEITFUL PARTING SHOT TO GAZA: “HERE’S THE DEAL”
This week, outgoing US President Joe Biden took to the stage, telling the world about a breakthrough in the illusive truce between Israel and the resistance Palestinian movement, Hamas. Biden has been desperately itching for a deal – any deal it seems as he stands at the exit door of the White House – just […]
YOUNG COMMUNISTS LAMBASTE “POLITICAL MAN-CHILD” COLLEN MALATJI OF THE ANC YOUTH LEAGUE
The Young Communist League of South Africa (Ufasimba) has laid a scathing attack on the President of the ANC Youth League, Collen Malatji, describing him as a “hollow figurehead”. Trouble started on January 10, during the annual Peter Mokaba Memorial Lecture delivered by Malatji, who attacked the Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, Solly Mapaila, […]
NO POWER, NOT EVEN THE UN, WILL STOP TRUMP’S COLONIAL ASPIRATIONS, YOU WATCH
I’ve never had any trouble accepting the US President-elect Donald Trump’s “America First” policy agenda. I hold a view that if any US administration chooses an inward-looking agenda, it does thus on behalf of the majority that had catapulted it to the White House. Trump’s policy of “Make America Great Again” – a political slogan […]
ZELENSKY’S MISGUIDED DECISION TO HALT RUSSIA’S GAS SUPPLY TO EUROPE WILL BOOMERANG
Ukraine’s ill-advised stoppage of the supply of Russian gas through its territory is aimed at harming the economy of Russia and the international standing of President Vladimir Putin. Against a chorus of appeal from several EU member-states for President Volodymyr Zelensky to rethink his controversial decision, Kiev is thus far showing no appetite for a […]
THE EU “WON’T EXIST IN 10 YEARS”, WARNS SLOVAK REPUBLIC
The EU, the cornerstone of Western hegemony, will cease to exist in 10 years unless the bloc undertakes fundamental change to how it relates with the Global South. Slovak Republic, member of the EU and one of the key dissenters from the bloc’s imperial stance in geopolitics, has become one of the loudest critics of […]
CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR RURAL KGOM0-KGOMO, THANKS TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY
Chinese Embassy in South Africa joined hands with the government as it continued to revive the rural heartland of the North West province, this time providing the impoverished Kgomo-Kgomo villagers with home solar batteries and Christmas hampers. At the well-attended donation ceremony at the local school men, women and children filled the two white tent […]
CHINESE-FUNDED ENTERPRISES IN SA ENHANCE UNIQUE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT BENEFITS ALL
During his 4th state visit to South Africa last August, Chinese President Xi Jinping famously described bilateral relations between the two allies as having entered the “golden era”. This year, in September, SA President Cyril Ramaphosa reciprocated by undertaking a state visit to China, where he was received with great pomp and ceremony. The September meeting […]