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The blunt approach taken by Donald ‘The Apprentice’ Trump is getting results – but true diplomacy with lasting solutions must be a lot more subtle
How is it possible that President Cyril Ramaphosa does not realise that South Africa is embroiled in an existential crisis?
The widening rift between America and Europe is SA’s to grasp – both to mend its relationship with the US, and to hold its own in a new world order
South Africa needs some brutally honest introspection if we are to emerge from the Trump firestorm in a better place
SA’s influence in Africa will be seriously undermined if the government withdraws its soldiers from a peacekeeping force in the DRC
Cyril Ramaphosa should take a leaf out of Donald Trump’s playbook if he wants to counter the Zuma factor that’s holding him back
In 2011, billions of dollars were flown into SA from Libya. To date, no-one knows what’s happened to them
The US ambassador on South Africans ‘finding each other’, the price of being free, and constructive international relations. But no word on the Lady R
Vrye Weekblad’s Max du Preez tries to make sense of all the questions and theories around Chris Hani’s 1993 assassination.
Once a vanguard, now a rearguard party, the SACP is likely to disappear with a whimper rather than a bang
The populist parties are growling at each other. The ANC is somewhat paralysed by internal divisions. And Cyril is stuck in the middle
Did the ANC receive a large amount of money from Iran to take the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice? And is South Africa a proxy for Iran’s…
South Africa, under the government of national unity (GNU), is clearly significantly better off than it would have been had the ANC continued to govern alone after the May…
Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party remains the great unknown in South African politics. Questions persist over whether it is merely a personality cult, what it really stands…
