UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY PLAYING WITH FIRE IF HE ATTACKS RUSSIAN CIVIL AVIATION
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit back at his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in what has become a key indicator in the growing schism between the two neighbouring nations in the grip of devastating war that has entered a fifth year. Putin was reacting in the aftermath of the recent threats by Zelensky that Ukraine […]
CHINA’S DIPLOMACY AND TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2026: MARKET ACCESS TO STRATEGIC ECONOMIC POWER
China’s Diplomacy and Trade in the first half of 2026: Market access to strategic economic power Author: Thato Mazwe Madibo In the first half of 2026, China’s economic foreign policy has indicated that for Beijing, diplomacy and trade relations are not distinct policy areas. Trade agreements, tariff concessions, investment promotion, supply chain linkages, internationalisation of […]
DISSECTING THE HEART OF A SOULLESS SOCIETY : JACKIE PHAMOTSE AND THE BIG 5 CARTEL
By Sandile Memela DISSECTING THE HEART OF A SOULLESS SOCIETY : JACKIE PHAMOTSE AND THE BIG 5 CARTEL South Africa has become a crime scene. Not a country with crime, but a crime scene that happens to be a country. That is the uncomfortable diagnosis that author and criminologist Jackie Phamotse forces us to confront. […]
SARW TO LAUNCH ONE VOICE, ONE STRATEGY: A CONTINENTAL BLUEPRINT FOR AFRICAN STRATEGIC MINERALS, JOINT INDUSTRIAL POLICIES, AND DIPLOMACY
PRESS RELEASE SARW to Launch One Voice, One Strategy: A Continental Blueprint for African Strategic Minerals, Joint Industrial Policies, and Diplomacy Pretoria, South Africa, 3 September 2026: The Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) will launch One Voice, One Strategy: A Continental Blueprint for African Strategic Minerals, Joint Industrial Policies, and Diplomacy on Wednesday, 9 September […]
CELEBRATION OF “WORLD HAUSA DAY” HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN “LANGUAGE DEBATE”
August 26 marks the annual global celebration to honour the language, rich cultural heritage, traditions, and history of the Hausa people. They are one of the largest ethnic and cultural groups in West Africa, and can be found mostly in Nigeria and Niger, totaling between 50 and 80 million. World Hausa Day, also known as […]
BRICS MEMBERSHIP LIKELY TO BE INCREASED IN INDIA
More than 30 countries are said to have applied for a full membership of BRICS, signaling the growing significance of the strategic bloc in international relations. The decision of whether or not to expand the existing 11-member bloc will be taken at the next BRICS heads of state summit, also known as the 18th BRICS […]
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 […]