March 30
Africa: Europe, Africa Face Moment of Reckoning As Global Shifts Expose Limits of Unequal Partnership
As global fragmentation exposes the widening gap between international rules and lived realities, the Europe-Africa partnership is increasingly tested on whether it can move beyond… Read more »
March 31
South Africa: South Africa Agriculture Groups Urge More Fuel Relief As IMF Warns of Global Shock
The South African agricultural industry welcomed the cut in the fuel levy, but there are calls for more action to protect the country's food security. Read more »
March 25
South Africa: How Middle East Conflict Is Hitting Your Investment Portfolio - What (Not) to Do
For South African investors, the impact of the Middle East conflict is not an abstract concept, but is showing up in the market through higher oil prices, inflation fears, rand… Read more »
March 26
South Africa: Thank You, Cuba, for the 60 Years They've Been Trying to Make Us Forget
In November 2022, I travelled to Cuba with a group of South African social justice leaders. What we found there - the contradictions, the humanity, the defiant solidarity - is… Read more »
March 23
South Africa: Million-Dollar Hacker Who Targeted US Businesses From SA Jailed in America, Faces Deportation
Using the aliases 'Ghost' and 'Old Soldier', a swindler from Nigeria stayed in South Africa while targeting Americans through hacking into emails and requesting payments. Now,… Read more »
March 12
South Africa: Tips for Bozell - a Geopolitical Survival Guide From Mzansi for Us Ambassador to SA
Essential advice to US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III following his undiplomatic remarks. South Africa is a noisy, resilient democracy whose defining covenant is its Constitution.… Read more »
February 24
South Africa: Changing His Tune - New U.S. Ambassador Expresses Optimism About U.S.-South Africa Relations
In his first remarks as US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III emphasises a positive partnership, contrasting with previous criticisms he made about South Africa. Read more »
March 11
South Africa: New Spat Brews With U.S. After South Africa Rebukes Ambassador Bozell for 'Undiplomatic Remarks'
The US ambassador to South Africa's diplomatic rebuke follows his remarks that he 'didn't care' about South African court rulings on the Struggle song 'Kill the Boer', and that the… Read more »
March 05
South Africa: US Senate Chair - Russia 'Violating Treaty' in Antarctic Oil, Gas Hunt Via Cape Town
A rare rebuke from the Foreign Relations Committee elevates years of quiet prospecting into a test of whether the US will enforce a ban it helped to write. Read more »
March 06
South Africa: Ukraine's Ambassador to SA Refuses to Mourn Khamenei
Ambassador Olexander Scherba declined to sign a condolence book at the Iranian embassy 'due to the Shahed drones supplied to Russia'. Read more »
South Africa: SA-US Relations - - a New Worst-Case Scenario
The potential for escalating US trade pressures looms over South Africa, highlighting the risks of diplomatic strains and economic fallout in international relations. Read more »
March 04
South Africa: Early Hearing Detection Could Help Close the Learning Gap Before It Opens
Early hearing loss often goes undetected, quietly shaping a child's ability to speak, learn and connect. A quick test at birth could change that trajectory - yet too many of SA's… Read more »
South Africa: MTN's Iran Headache Just Got Worse As Sanctions, Strikes Tighten Noose
The escalating situation in Iran is a massive drag on any South African business immersed in the global supply chain. But for a multinational network operator like MTN, it is all… Read more »
South Africa: South Africans Urged to Use 'Limited' Flights to Flee Middle East As Conflict Escalates
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has urgently advised more than 6,400 citizens in the Middle East to evacuate via limited commercial flights as attacks and… Read more »
March 03
South Africa: 'It's About Law, Not Politics' - SA's Dirco Boss On US-Israeli Strikes and Iran's Retaliation
In an interview with Daily Maverick, South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation director-general Zane Dangor says both the US-Israeli strikes on Iran -… Read more »
March 02
South Africa: Middle East Conflict - Oil and Gold Price Surge Will Shock South Africa
The spectre of oil at $100 (R1,607) a barrel will haunt the South African Reserve Bank's efforts to contain inflation. At the start of this year there were high hopes that the Bank… Read more »
February 23
South Africa: South Africans Lured to Fight for Russia in Ukraine Are On Their Way Home
Most of the 17 South Africans who were trapped on the front line in Ukraine are out of the war zone. They were allegedly recruited by the MK party. Read more »
February 19
South Africa: Paris Signals Strong, but Nuanced, Support for Pretoria On the Global Stage
French President Emmanuel Macron will keep SA's G20 agenda alive in the G7. Read more »
February 18
Africa: As Europe Drinks Less, Big Alcohol Turns to Africa
As drinking declines in Europe and North America, global alcohol companies are shifting their growth strategy towards emerging markets - including South Africa. Public health… Read more »
February 17
South Africa: From Pretoria to Ohio - The Dark Journey of an Animal Tranquilliser Murder Plot
Details unfold in a disturbing case linking a US woman's murder of her estranged husband to her South African lover's attempt to hire hitmen before acquiring a lethal… Read more »
February 18
South Africa: An 'Extraordinary American Pilgrimage' - Jesse Jackson's Final Lap Has Been Run
A giant of the American civil rights struggle and a political pioneer, the Reverend Jesse Jackson now belongs to history. We examine what he did - and what he meant to America. Read more »
February 10
South Africa: The Gutting of the Washington Post Is a Warning We Can't Ignore
The Washington Post once told the world that 'democracy dies in darkness'. This past week, the darkness arrived. Not from an authoritarian decree, but from an owner's calculated… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Mantashe Clashes With DRC Counterpart Over Its Critical Minerals Deal With U.S.
During a heated exchange at the Mining Indaba, Gwede Mantashe challenged the Democratic Republic of Congo's critical minerals agreement with the US, stressing the need for… Read more »
February 03
South Africa: Eroding Democracy - Scapegoating Foreigners Is a Sign of Institutional Exhaustion
From Donald Trump's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids to Operation New Broom and South Africa's Revised Draft White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee… Read more »
February 02
South Africa: SA-Israel Spat - Tit-for-Tat Envoy Expulsions Rooted in Much Bigger 'Ideological War' Over Gaza
South Africa's expulsion of the Israeli chargé d'affaires and Israel's reciprocal response emphasise a collapse in relations. These 'persona non grata' declarations are… Read more »
