October 03
Africa: Brics+ Prioritising Expansion to Fight Western Hegemony
In an interview with Sky News Arabia on September 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed scepticism but was straight to the point about the strategic expansion of… Read more »
September 26
Africa: Dying for a Cause - Environmental Defenders in the Firing Line
In 2017, South African activist Nonhle Mbuthuma took a stand against the powerful oil giant Shell, halting their plans to explore the pristine Wild Coast. Read more »
May 13
South Africa: South Africa Will Be President of G20 in 2025 - Two Much-Needed Reforms It Should Drive
South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the European Union.… Read more »
March 20
South Africa: Managing Transboundary Aquifers for Peace
Like surface waters, groundwater resources frequently cross international boundaries, potentially igniting disputes among nations that rely on this essential resource.… Read more »
February 18
Africa: South Africa vs Israel - ICJ Declines SA's New Application but Says Israel Duty Bound to Protect Civilians
The International Court of Justice has declined the South African government's urgent application for further measures to prevent an "unprecedented military offensive against… Read more »
January 26
South Africa: International Court of Justice Set to Deliver Order in Genocide Case
The International Court of Justice will deliver it's order for provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case of South Africa versus Israel today. Read more »
January 12
South Africa: South Africa's Genocide Case Flawed, Premature, Inaccurate - Israel
On day two at the International Court of Justice, Israel replies to South African arguments that the country is in contravention of the Genocide Convention. Read more »
January 11
Africa: South Africa Argues for Immediate Suspension of Israeli Attacks on Palestine
Far from the mayhem, destruction, and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the South African government argued in the International Court of Justice in the Hague that it had an obligation… Read more »
Africa: Where Does the International Criminal Court Stand On Charges of Mass Killings in Gaza?
The continued devastation of Gaza by Israel has triggered widespread charges of war crimes, genocide, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, starvation as a weapon of war and mass… Read more »
South Africa: South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel At the International Court of Justice
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) published the following Q&A with human rights attorney and political analyst Diana Buttu on South Africa's genocide case… Read more »
November 24, 2023
Africa: Africa Will Not Cope With Climate Change Without a Just, Inclusive Energy Transition
A just transition should be viewed as an opportunity to rectify some of the wrongs where women are not prioritised in the energy mix, yet their experience of the impact of climate… Read more »
June 19, 2023
South Africa: Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassador's Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy
In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded. He saw leprosy patients inside the hospital still and expressionless. The smell of leprosy… Read more »
May 11, 2023
South Africa: Finding Ways to Feed South Africa's Vast Hungry Population
In the deep rural village of Jekezi in South Africa's Eastern Cape, most young and able-bodied people have fled the area, leaving behind people with disabilities, the elderly, and… Read more »
May 02, 2023
South Africa: Safeguarding the Future of Independent Media and Our Democracies
There's a now familiar groan every time the lights go out in South Africa. Due to a critical shortage of electricity, the national power utility institutes a daily regimen of… Read more »
March 24, 2023
South Africa: Artisanal Miners Face Onerous Obstacles to Become Legal
Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa's mines, together with the government's failure to enforce regulations on the… Read more »
March 01, 2023
South Africa: Rising Food Prices, Ongoing Energy Crisis Place South Africa At Risk
South Africa's almost record level food price inflation, load shedding, rising energy costs, and further fuel and interest rate hike forecast have eroded workers' disposable… Read more »
January 23, 2023
South Africa: We Want to Be Legal - We're Not 'Zama Zama' Criminals, Say Artisanal Miners
Mining towns across South Africa have become hostage to a booming but bloody illegal mining economy. Read more »
January 02, 2008
South Africa: Government Set to Reach Sanitation Target, But is It Enough?
The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has narrowly missed one of its most important targets, aimed at improving sanitation for the country's poorest people -… Read more »