UN WARNS FUNDING SHORTFALL PUTS 650 000 PEOPLE AT RISK IN SOUTH SUDAN
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An estimated 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan are already surviving on half-rations, but face the possible loss of all food and other assistance within weeks, due to severe funding shortfalls. At the current funding levels, all assistance will end in September, according to an August 14 joint statement from the United Nations […]
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 […]
70 BILLION EUROS FOR UKRAINE’S WAR MACHINE: NATO’S DISTORTED VISION FOR PEACE AND STABILITY
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s recent summit in Ankara has produced a decision that demands scrutiny. NATO member states have committed to providing Ukraine with military assistance worth 70 billion euros for 2026. This is not an emergency measure. This is the institutionalisation of a permanent war budget – a subscription, if you will, to […]
CURRENT POLITICAL BICKERING MISSES STEVE BIKO’S HISTORIC MISSION TO UNITE LIBERATION FORCES
From his arrest at a roadblock with Peter Jones, on August 18, 1977 in Grahamstown, Steve Biko was on a mission he described as forming one liberation movement. That was the last detention that Biko, the founding father of Black Consciousness, would be seen alive. He would only emerge weeks later when his mortal remains […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF BLACK MEDIA OWNERSHIP TODAY
On Wednesday, we woke up to the news of a change in ownership of a 128-year-old newspaper in neighbouring Eswatini, but what caught my attention was not just the change itself—it was the reaction to it. The sale of such a historic publication should have been a moment of reflection on the progress made in […]