WESTERN SAHARA PEACE TALKS – HOW DIRCO LET DOWN PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his 2nd State of the Nation (SONA) address under the auspices of the Government of National Unity (GNU). The significance of this was overwhelming. This was only the second time since the dawn of democracy in April 1994 that Mandela’s party, the ANC, has not enjoyed a monopoly on determining the country’s […]
SA MUST JOIN US, MOROCCO AND OTHERS IN SECURING WESTERN SAHARA PEACE DEAL
The Trump administration is moving with turbo-charged speed to settle the Western Sahara conflict. In that expeditious US adventure, there is bound to be winners and losers. South Africa, a long-standing backer of the Western Sahara people’s fight for independence, appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place. SA has historically aligned […]
UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY SHOULD STOP BEING MISLED BY EU’S WAR-MONGERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to be caught between a rock and hard place. Publicly, he repeatedly calls for the war to end – immediately. However, methinks his biggest fault-line can be traced in his insistence that the war in Ukraine, which broke out in 2022 at the height of significant geopolitical differences between Moscow […]
AMERICA’S “KILL LINE” MAKES A MOCKERY OF LIVING THE DREAM
“Kill line”, the relatively new American catchphrase that has come to describe people who have fallen on hard times, has lit the torch on the vulnerability to fall into the quicksand of poverty. The phrase “kill line” originates from video games, where it refers to a “health threshold below which a character can be instantly […]
ZELENSKY’S PRAISE FOR MADURO’S KIDNAPPING MUST TEACH SA TO CHOOSE ALLIES WISELY
As most of the international community paused in “shock and awe” of the US whilst staging a brazen military attack on Venezuela – kidnapping and whisking away the country’s president and his wife to a detention centre far away in New York – some celebrated the cowboy drama as a lesson for adversaries. Among the […]
UN RESOLUTION 2797 CAUSES ANC TO RETHINK STRATEGY FOR WESTERN SAHARA
In a frank conversation with renowned political analyst, Prof Sipho Seepe, he offers some interesting food for thought for the ANC on the party’s foreign policy stance regarding Western Sahara. “The ANC should not confuse sovereignty with self-determination. Nations have been able to create self-determining regions within one sovereign state,” he says, before adding: “Canada, […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE
Amidst a week of great turmoil in geopolitics, the US Senate voted 52-47 to advancea war powers resolution aimed at limiting theuse of armed forces against Venezuela. The vote followed concerns that President Donald Trump did not seek congressional approval prior to his military attack on Venezuela. Trump had ramped up his discomforting rhetoric with […]
BY BANNING AID AGENCIES FROM GAZA, ISRAEL HAS SEALED THE DEMISE OF PALESTNIANS
Spare a thought for the Palestinian people in 2026. The anti-Palestine dice is so heavily loaded against them that one shudders to think if there can be any worse form of catastrophe the Palestinians have never known. In 2025, we witnessed what appeared like a surge in the countries undertaking to officially recognize Palestinian statehood. […]
US SUFFERS CHINA’S BACKLASH OVER “PROVOCATIVE MOVE” TO ARM TAIWAN
The People’s Republic of China has predictably unleashed a major backlash against the provocative US decision to sell large-scale arms to Taiwan, an inalienable region of China. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced taking countermeasures against 20 US military companies and 10 senior executives who have engaged in arming Taiwan in recent years. […]
WORLD REVIEW AND FORECAST SHOWS THINGS MAY GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GET ANY BETTER
We’ve come to the very end of a treacherous year in international relations. There have been so many events happening, so many divisive statements uttered and so many men and women brazenly embrace war-talk. Yet, despite all the apparent gloom and doom there was reasonable hope for the future amidst the present that is characterised […]
US ARMING TAIWAN IS TO POKE NOSE INTO CHINA’S SOVEREIGNTY
If actions indeed speak louder than words,this week’s decision by the US to approve a record weapons sale toTaiwan is proof that the Trump administration is doing everything in its military power to trigger a confrontation with China. The 11.1 billion dollar sale of massive package of advanced weaponry for Taiwan was greenlighted byPete Hegseth’s […]
BUSINESS ICON MASHILE-NKOSI LEADS CROWDS IN STEM CELL AND BLOOD DONATION AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
Renowned businesswoman and philanthropist, Daphne Mashile-Nkosi, has led a public awareness campaign aimed at basic education around the debilitating lack of stem cell and blood donation in South Africa. The event was organized by the Stanley & Daphne Nkosi Foundation (SDNF) and actively supported by the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, SA National Blood Service (SANBS), […]