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 […]
SACP SET TO SHAKE TRIPARTITE ALLIANCE TO THE CORE AS IT MOVES TO CONTEST ELECTIONS ALONE
SA Communist Party members converge in Gauteng’s Ekurhuleni region in what could become a watershed moment in the ANC-headed Tripartite Alliance that has governed democratic South Africa since 1994. Bilateral relations between key components of the Tripartite Alliance, the ANC and SACP, have grown so frosty the fall-out is all but an open secret. The […]
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S AFRICAN DREAM TO COUNTER CHINA WILL BE DERAILED BY HISTORY
In 1976, in an effort to bolster the China-Africa relations that had blossomed throughout Africa’s liberation wars for independence, China issued a rare (at the time) interest-free loan for the construction of TAZARA railway. TAZARA, short for Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority, has since the start of its operation nearly 50 years ago been a shining model […]
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ANGOLA VISIT FRAUGHT WITH A LITANY OF QUESTIONS
Right at the tail-end of his chequered presidency, out-going US President Joe Biden is visiting Angola in the SADC region not only to bolster bilateral ties between Washington and Luanda, but also – we learn – to counter China’s rising influence and impact in Africa. Among his key offerings on the table, President Biden has […]
EUROPE’S “REGISTER” TO STEAL RUSSIA’S FROZEN ASSETS IS DOOMED TO FAIL
“Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine”, also known as the Register of Damage for Ukraine or RD4U, is an acronym for Western ganging-up against Moscow in the wake of glaring geopolitical clash of interests between the West and Russia. Founded by the Council of Europe to proliferate ways […]
LAME DUCK BIDEN’S SHEER ACT OF FOLLY AS HE RISKS A WORLD WAR
In his last act of cowardice, outgoing US President Joe Biden has done what he dreaded doing at the height of his comfort in office – authorizing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles into Russia, an act the Kremlin has long described as a “red line”. The question is, why now? So heavily is the dice […]
BE CAREFUL OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN SA’S STABLE DEMOCRACY
The controversial US NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is holding a conference in Johannesburg under the banner of democracy and the spread of other freedoms associated with democratization. The conference started today, November 20th, and runs Friday until 22nd. The NED was established in 1983 during the Ronald Reagan administration and has since played […]
“COLONIALISM HAS LEFT A DEEP WOUND IN US,” AFRICA TELLS RUSSIA
Consensus among international relations scholars is that our global order system is currently undergoing changes of great significance. The convergence in Sochi, Russia, of Africa’s foreign affairs ministers and their team attested to the fundamental shift in global relations. Africa’s top envoys were hosted by their Russian counterpart, the veteran foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. Africa […]