IMPERFECT AS HE IS, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EFFORTS TOWARD PEACE ARE COMMENDABLE
US President Donald Trump attracts avalanches of international scrutiny for all the right reasons – he is after all the commander-in-chief of the world’s most potent army and presides over an economy with significant global influence. Washington’s penchant for a cantankerous foreign policy that is replete with unpredictability is also an added reason to the […]
THE “AFRIKANER REFUGEES” FALLACY EXPOSES THE MALADY IN SA-US RELATIONS
Never in the history of democratic South Africa has so few caused so much pain to so many and with impunity. The preposterous saga of a very tiny minority of Afrikaners who this week flew to the US under the utterly false pretense of escaping persecution has pooh-poohed Mandela’s dream of a South Africa for […]
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 […]