ABBEY MAKOE SPEAKS DURING THE CMG YOUTH IN ACTION EVENT
“I’ve just came back two days ago from China’s historic Xi’an city in Shaanxi province where I participated in the Global South Media Partners Mechanism Inauguration and 13TH Global Video Media Forum, organized by the China Media Group, or CMG. My experience of interacting with the CMG, be it here in South Africa or back […]
A NEW WORLD ORDER THRASHED OUT IN CHINA THROUGH GLOBAL SOUTH MEDIA COOPERATION
A large contingency of media bosses from across the Global South converged on the Chinese city of Xi’an, a state-built cosmopolitan and national central haven of some 13 million permanent residents to map out a path to a new world order. The event, held this week in the middle of the Chinese Autumn, was dubbed: […]
FORGET ABOUT THE STATE OF PALESTINE – TRUMP, NETANYAHU, HOLD THE CARDS
This week’s sudden bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) on the instruction of the Jewish State’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves too much to be desired. It is an appalling act of genocidal intent made a lot worse by revelations that Netanyahu had given the White House prior warning of the bombardment, […]
PRESIDENT PUTIN’S INABILITY TO ATTEND G20 COULD SPELL DANGER TO SA INSIDE BRICS
For the second time in quick succession, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be unable to attend a very important gathering on South African soil. First it was BRICS heads of state summit in August 2023, which was held in Sandton, Johannesburg. This time, President Putin is again unable to attend yet another global event of […]
AFTER GAZA PEACE DEAL, NOW TRUMP EYES UKRAINE
Right on the immediate aftermath of the fragile Gaza peace deal, US President Donald Trump appears set to keep his momentum, hinting at pulling off a spectacularly similar deal in Ukraine. At the behest of the Kremlin, Trump held a two-and-half hour telephone meeting with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin. They discussed several key […]
CHINA’S MAGNIFICENT “ BYD” LAUNCHES BIGGEST STORE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Build Your Dreams, better-known as BYD – the famous Chinese automobile brand – has launched in South Africa’s financial capital, Sandton, in Johannesburg. Attended by a select group of key stakeholders, the new 4S dealership was buzzing with excitement over an array of exquisite high-tech vehicles that lay displayed on the magnificent shop floor in […]
CHINA’S “EIGHT-POINT DECISION” IS A DEVELOPMENT MODEL WORTHY OF COPYING
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is setting the bar very high for public office bearers to display exemplary leadership or face the consequences. In a document better-known as the “Eight-Point Decision on Improving Party and Government Conduct and Building Closer Ties with the People”, the Central Committee of the governing CPC seeks to streamline […]
GAZA’S DEMISE IS NOT ON ISRAEL’S BRUTALITY, IT IS ON THE WATCH OF THE US, PERIOD!
The US has correctly gained international reputation as a dishonest peace broker. There is no need to look beyond Gaza, the epicentre of the failure of global diplomacy. Every credible institution in the world has descried the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza since October 2023. It is the human tragedy never seen in both scope […]
THE UN IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF TOTAL COLLAPSE
This week, as world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly (UNGA) high-level debate as part of celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN, gloom and doom over-shadowed the waning nobility of the organisation’s charter. The “high-level week” at the UN is held every year in September, and attracts heads […]
“SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION” (SCO) IS A NEW WORLD POWER RISING TO REPLACE THE OBSOLETE UN SYSTEM
In a week in which the US vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) binding resolution aimed at ordering the immediate ceasefire in Gaza, let aid into the starving population and release the hostages held by Hamas, the relevance of UN was inadvertently put in the dock. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative to the UN, summed […]
ROGUE STATE ISRAEL DETERMINED TO PULL DOWN THE US IN ITS INTERNATIONAL DECLINE
Israeli’s daring bombardment of Qatar this week revealed more than meets the eye. Let me cut to the chase: Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israelis have neither regard nor interest in brokering peace with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, a movement that was born in the 1970’s as a militant response the decades-long illegal […]
STEVE BIKO REMEMBERED BY HIS FOLLOWERS IN SONG, DANCE AND REVOLUTIONARY SPEECHES IN A CEREMONY AT HIS PRISON CELL
Throngs of Black Consciousness adherents – young and old – some carrying babies, gathered at the historic prison cell where Steve Bantu Biko was mercilessly murdered by the apartheid regime 48 years ago. Kgoshi Mampuru II Correctional Facility, formerly the notorious Pretoria Central Prison where anti-apartheid leaders were hanged at the gallows inside the premises, […]