PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA HOSTS PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY OF UKRAINE
President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday, 24 April 2025, hosted the President of Ukraine, His Excellency President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on an Official Visit to South Africa at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The Official Visit to South Africa by President Zelenskyy is the first by a Head of State from Ukraine. This official visit follows on […]
SACP: PEOPLE’S PROTESTS AGAINST ZELENSKY’S VISIT TO SA
The demonstration in Tshwane will take place as follows: Date: Thursday, 24 April 2025Time: 11h00Venue: Ukrainian Embassy, 398 Marias Street, Pretoria The demonstration in Soweto, Johannesburg, will take place as follows: Date: Thursday, 24 April 2025Time: 14h00Venue: Walter Sisulu Square, Cnr Klipspruit Valley Road & Union Road, Kliptown, Soweto
SA MUST RETHINK HOSTING THE DIVISIVE UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s scheduled official state visit to SA is next week is fraught with huge geopolitical repercussions for Pretoria. Since the announcement in recent times that President Zelensky would be landing on our shores on April 24, I’ve been grappling to wisdom behind his visit. In all honesty, and without a shred of […]
TRUMP LEAVES WAR-MONGERING EUROPE IN HIS WAKE AS HE EMBRACES RUSSIA
Within ten minutes of his call with the US President Donald Trump this week, Russian leader Vladimir Putin instructed his military to halt all attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. That is how determined both Trump and Putin are apparently eager to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, which Trump vows would never have […]
US NEGOTIATORS FLY INTO MOSCOW IN A PUSH FOR A PAUSE IN THE UKRAINE CONFLICT
American negotiators are flying to Russia, and contacts are planned — Kremlin confirms. Dmitry Peskov stressed that the process of communicating the results of the negotiations between the United States and Ukraine in Jeddah to the Russian side is underway. US President is going full steam with his push for a negotiated settlement in the […]
ZELENSKY’S WHITE HOUSE HUMILIATION PITS EUROPE AGAINST THE US, AND DAWN OF A NEW WORLD ORDER
The very public fallout between US President Donald Trump and his visiting Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House has complicated Europe’s implicit plan to prolong their proxy war with Russia. Even for Diplomacy 101, Zelensky failed spectacularly. The diplomatic decorum requires at its fundamental basis the ethos of humility, calmness and erudite exposition […]
IMPERFECT AS IT MAY BE, PEACE IS ON THE HORIZON, THANKS TO TRUMP
US President Donald Trump has set global power relations on a tailspin, leaving the entire Europe reeling in confused shock and disbelief and the future completely uncertain. A mere one month in office, Trump has signed countless executive orders and flipped America’s foreign policy from his predecessor Joe Biden’s globalism to his election promise of […]
RUSSIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV PLEASED BY THE RESUMPTION OF DIRECT DIPLOMACY WITH THE US
Veteran Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was clear as he led his delegation to the high-stakes diplomatic talks with his US counterparts in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh: Resetting of collapsed bilateral ties. Ending the Ukraine war was only a part of a bigger agenda. Lifting economic sanctions, nuclear cooperation and reignited diplomatic cooperation were […]
REBOOTED US-RUSSIA RELATIONS SPELLS DOOM FOR NATO
The high-level meeting between the US and Russia, aimed resetting frosted bilateral relations and also thrash out mechanism to end the Ukraine war, could mark the reconfiguration of the international world order. The side-lining of Europe and NATO and also casting aside the elephant in the room – Ukraine – whilst determining the Kiev’s future […]
THE END IS NIGH FOR THE UKRAINE WAR AS PRESIDENT TRUMP FLEXES HIS MUSCLE
US President Donald Trump is rapidly proving to be a man of his words. Love or loathe him, the straight-talking Republican Party leader and a man who received a huge endorsement for his electioneering messages is someone who can be described as “what you see is what you get”. President Trump stunned Washington’s allies and […]
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 […]
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 […]