South Africa: US's Kimmel Muzzled While SA's White Right Goes Full Prefect in Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder

Spurred on by an attempted US right-wing crackdown on Saying Bad Things About Charlie Kirk, South Africa's self-proclaimed head boy, Ernst Roets, is warning local chatterboxes that… Read more »

South Africa: Team SA 'On the Ground' in US, Says Ramaphosa, Warning Against Retaliatory Tariffs

President Cyril Ramaphosa says officials from Pretoria are in the US for tariff negotiations that will take place in 'just a few days'. Read more »

South Africa: Those Resisting Trump's Maga Mania Have Seen How Freedom Can Be Taken for Granted

The thing about being free is that you only really appreciate it once you have been unfree. We South Africans know this - especially young South Africans. Under MAGA, the Americans… Read more »

Africa: Trump's Tariff Bullying Shows Signs of Backfiring

India defies US President Donald Trump's bullying. Will African countries do the same? Read more »

South Africa: Taiwan Blasts Lamola for Claiming It Has No Office in Washington DC

In a strongly worded statement, Taipei decries Lamola's 'grave lack of knowledge' and says he must 'stop spreading false information'. Read more »

South Africa: SA's Shuttle Diplomacy Between Kyiv and Moscow Is At Ukraine's Direction, Says Dirco DG

Dirco director-general Zane Dangor, fresh from a visit to Ukraine, says Pretoria is being guided by Ukraine in its ongoing role of providing shuttle diplomacy between the warring… Read more »

Mali: Russia's Wagner Mercenary Group Has Failed in Mali, Says the Sentry

A major investigation has found that the mercenary 'private security' company has failed to accomplish its mission of defeating jihadists and separatists in the West African… Read more »

South Africa: 'I'm Impatient With Bureaucratic Rhetoric' - Cachalia Tells Global Cops He's Tired of Lip Service

The international police organisation Interpol is having a conference in Cape Town. A speech by SA's acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia, who filled the position after corruption… Read more »

South Africa: Scores of South Africans Retrenched By NGO Processing Trump's Afrikaner 'Refugees'

The organisation that aims to bring Kenyan workers to South Africa to process Afrikaner 'refugees' bound for the US laid off more than 100 South Africans last year. Read more »

South Africa: Union Leader Says He Would Take Jail Over Forced End to Air Canada Strike

A leader of the union on strike against Air Canada AC.TO said on Monday he would risk jail time rather than allow cabin crews to be forced back to work by a federal labor board,… Read more »

South Africa: UN Report Highlights Need for Social Protection to Promote Gender Equality

In 2023, two billion women and girls and 1.8 billion men and boys had no access to social protection. Even when women are relatively well covered, benefit levels remain inadequate. Read more »

South Africa: Loaded for Bear - Much of the Reaction to U.S. Hunter Killed By Buffalo in SA Is Callous and Ignorant

If you don't like trophy hunting, fine. But it is important to base opposition on facts. And even if trophy hunting makes you see red, that is no reason to celebrate the death of a… Read more »

South Africa: President Ramaphosa to Meet SANDF Chief Over 'Ill-Advised' Visit to Iran

SANDF chief Rudzani Maphwanya's expression of solidarity with Iran was 'unhelpful' to SA's efforts to reset relations with the US, says President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson,… Read more »

South Africa: Exclusive - - The US Plan to Bring Kenyans to SA to Process Afrikaner 'Refugees'

The US State Department wants to bring workers from Kenya to South Africa to help with the Afrikaner 'refugee' project -- and the South African government is not amused. Read more »

South Africa: Ministers Slam SANDF Chief for His Remarks About Solidarity With Iran

The ministries of International Relations and Cooperation and of Defence have dissociated the government from SANDF chief Rudzani Maphwanya's remarks expressing solidarity with… Read more »

South Africa: Parks Tau's 'Plan A' Turns to New Markets to Outrun Trump's Trade War

SA dangles blueberries and pork in a bid to avert the US tariff blow. Read more »

South Africa: Ramaphosa, Trump Discuss 'Bilateral Trade Matters' in Phone Call As Tariffs Come Into Effect

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni suggested that there was still room to reach a trade agreement between the US and South Africa. Read more »

South Africa: Three Months Later, Trump's Afrikaner 'Refugees' Knuckle Down to Hard Reality in U.S.

Three months after the first group of Afrikaner 'refugees' left for the US, many have gone to ground. A handful are speaking openly about their new lives. Read more »

South Africa: Increasingly Divisive Politics Dooms SA's Attempt to Define Its 'National Interest'

The recent debates in our country sparked by the unsuccessful tariff negotiations with the US were ultimately about what really lies in the 'national interest'. But this is… Read more »

South Africa: International Relations Go Better With Strong Liquor, As Minister Lamola's Haul of Gifts Shows

Alcohol, obscure artworks and other tat appear to be favoured as gifts given by foreign embassies to South Africa's minister of international relations. Read more »

South Africa: SA's Pieter Coetzé Clinches Gold At World Aquatics Championships in Singapore

South Africa earned their first medal at the World Aquatics Championships after star swimmer Pieter Coetzé claimed gold in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday. Read more »

South Africa: SA-US Trade Tariff Negotiations and the 10-Year Game

I suddenly realised that what we said and did during the Covid pandemic was only going to be judged over a 10-year period. I think the same might apply to how our government… Read more »

South Africa: Rise Mzansi Has Lost Millions Over Its Israel Stance, Says Songezo Zibi

Taking a principled position on the situation in Gaza can be costly -- as one South African political party has discovered. Read more »

South Africa: Lamola Calls for More Countries to 'Urgently' Recognise Palestinian Statehood At UN Conference

The international legal and multilateral system has been turned into a blunt tool, says Lamola. Read more »

South Africa: Redi Tlhabi On the Media's Failure in US-SA Coverage

In a solo episode of The Readiness Report, Redi Tlhabi turns the microphone on her own industry -- calling out how some South African media has mishandled coverage of US-South… Read more »