MYSTERY SURROUNDS THE GRUESOME FIND OF THE “PEOPLE’S DOCTOR” AND “STRUGGLE HERO” DR GOMOLEMO MOKAE’S BULLET-RIDDLED BODY IN HIS HOME
Anti-apartheid Struggle hero and a stalwart of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), Dr Gomolemo Mokae, has been murdered at his home Ga-Rankuwa Zone 1 home north of Pretoria. Dr Mokae’s lifeless body was found with evidence of a violent death. According to reports, a postmortem has revealed that the “People’s Doctor” was “shot on both […]
PANIC-STRICKEN EU LEADERS FLOCK TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO PLEAD WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP
The global governance system is in a tailspin. But more to the point – the re-emergence of the US President Donald Trump as the Commander-in-Chief of the world’s nuclear power has thrown Europe in a fix, a spot of bother. The speed with which the change of guard in the White House has upended the […]
ZELENSKY’S WHITE HOUSE HUMILIATION PITS EUROPE AGAINST THE US, AND DAWN OF A NEW WORLD ORDER
The very public fallout between US President Donald Trump and his visiting Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House has complicated Europe’s implicit plan to prolong their proxy war with Russia. Even for Diplomacy 101, Zelensky failed spectacularly. The diplomatic decorum requires at its fundamental basis the ethos of humility, calmness and erudite exposition […]
IMPERFECT AS IT MAY BE, PEACE IS ON THE HORIZON, THANKS TO TRUMP
US President Donald Trump has set global power relations on a tailspin, leaving the entire Europe reeling in confused shock and disbelief and the future completely uncertain. A mere one month in office, Trump has signed countless executive orders and flipped America’s foreign policy from his predecessor Joe Biden’s globalism to his election promise of […]
CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI PRAISES THE “AFRICA MOMENT” AT G20 MEETING
Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi, visiting South Africa for the G20 meeting of the organization’s foreign affairs ministers, has heaped praise and expressed gratitude to the hospitality of his hosts, the SA government. Of greater significance, Minister Yi acknowledged the hosting of the G20 summit for the very first on the African soil, just […]
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, […]