TRUMP’S UNIPOLAR TARIFFS MAKE THE US LOOK LIKE “A MONKEY PLAYING WITH A GRENADE” – EXPERT
President Donald Trump’s yo-yoing foreign policy continues to cause unprecedented ructions in international relations, with his sudden adoption of a hard stance against Russia the latest example of the dreaded unpredictability in diplomacy. One expert has likened President Trump’s cantankerous approach to foreign relations to a “monkey playing with a hand-grenade”. In a typical flip-flop […]
UKRAINE WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR ILL-ADVISED DRONE ATTACKS ON RUSSIA’S AIRBASES
In a much-anticipated telephone call this week, US President Donald Trump was at pains explaining to his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, that Washington absolutely had nothing to do with Ukraine’s astoundingly provocative drone attacks on five Russian airbases. The airbases, attacked simultaneously, house Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. The attacks appear to put a spanner in […]
GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERZ FLIRTS WITH DANGER IF HE PRODUCES LONG-RANGE MISSILES AGAINST RUSSIA
German-based anti-war civil society organization, the Schiller Institute, has made an impassioned plea to the country’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz to refrain from dragging Germany into a direct war with Russia. Renowned peace campaigner and founder of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, made a call for sanity to prevail after Chancellor Merz announced that Germany […]
WHO BENEFITS FROM ZELENSKY’S VISIT?
What is the essence of a foreign policy that does not rally the nation around a common goal, and instead divides the populace right down the middle, leaving a bitter taste and uncertainty? The visit by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to our capital this week has caused a much greater harm to the national […]
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY’S REMARKS ON HIS STATE VISIT TO SA
“Today it is an honour for me to be on my first visit to your country, and even more so on the eve of Freedom Day. This is a holiday that reflects the main values of your people and connects us with you. Our desire for freedom, our desire for independence, for equality and respect […]
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA’S REMARKS ON OFFICIAL VISIT BY THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
“It is my distinct honour to receive President Zelenskyy and his delegation at the Union Buildings. This Official Visit reflects our shared commitment to enhancing our bilateral relations for the mutual benefit of our peoples. This is a historic visit. This is the first time the Head of State of Ukraine is visiting South Africa in […]
ZELENSKY ABRUPTLY CANCELS PART OF HIS VISIT TO SA, RETURNS TO UKRAINE
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has cut short his visit to the Republic of South Africa and is returning to Ukraine after a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Ukrainian media said. “The Ukrainian Foreign Minister will hold all necessary meetings in South Africa,” Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel. He arrived in Pretoria […]
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 […]
WHEN TARRIFS BECOME A POLITICAL WEAPON
US President Donald Trump has shocked America’s allies by lumping them together with the traditional foes such of the West in sweeping imposition of universal tariffs that have set in motion a global trade war. In typical cowboy fashion, President left no one unscathed. The EU, UK, Japan, South Korea and next-door neighbor Canada are […]
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 […]