August 06, 2025
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 »
August 03, 2025
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 »
July 29, 2025
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 »
July 21, 2025
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 »
July 23, 2025
South Africa: U.S. House of Reps Committee Passes First Round of Anti-South Africa Bill
The Bill calls for a review of US-SA relations and for sanctions against the South African government and ANC leaders. Read more »
July 15, 2025
South Africa: Presidency Condemns DA's 'Latest Effort to Embarrass' Special Envoy Mcebisi Jonas
Ramaphosa's spokesperson said, 'The DA is trying cheaply but dangerously to exploit a critical engagement between South Africa and the United States to protest President… Read more »
July 13, 2025
South Africa: Trump Tariffs Threaten Thousands of Eastern Cape Manufacturing Jobs - - but Mitigating Action Can Be Taken
Thousands of direct and indirect jobs in manufacturing in the Eastern Cape are at risk from the impacts of the new US tariffs. What can be done to mitigate against this? Read more »
July 01, 2025
South Africa: I Grew Up 'Coloured' in Apartheid SA - Now I Cry for My Beloved Country, the US
When I arrived as a graduate student in New York in 1983, the city and the country were in the middle of a vibrant anti-apartheid campaign. I never dreamt that 40 years later I… Read more »
June 26, 2025
Mozambique: Death in Mozambique After US Funding Cuts - A Health System Crumbles
After the abrupt termination of American aid, the health system in central Mozambique descended into chaos. Read more »
