African film festivals were once quite rare, but in the past decades they’ve been growing in the continent and mushrooming around the world. A recent open access book explores these events through case studies.
The book’s editor, African cinema scholar Sheila Petty, has also written chapters in it about the role film festivals play...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
Leader and MP of the National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, had told the Commission of Inquiry into Criminality or otherwise known as the Madlanga Commission that his referral to the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) had contained allegations concerning the Political...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
MP of the National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, has put into dispute a few key aspects of the testimonies given by members of the Investigative Directorate...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
Head of the National Organised Crime Task Team, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi suggests that officials within the criminal justice system be severely and closely scrutinised on the basis...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
MP of the National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, has put into dispute a few key aspects of the testimonies given by members of the Investigative Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) which raised questions over his initial complaint as well conflicting versions of his statements and the mishandling...
African film festivals were once quite rare, but in the past decades they’ve been growing in the continent and mushrooming around the world. A recent open access book explores these events through case studies.
The book’s editor, African cinema scholar Sheila Petty, has also written chapters in it about...
South Africa’s Constitutional Court – the country’s highest court – handed down a landmark judgment for climate change and environmental justice in mid-August 2026.
The companies had planned to use seismic surveys in the...
The eruption of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in May 2026 sparked a major crisis.
Transmissions and deaths are skyrocketing, and no vaccine...
By Virginia Keppler-Young
Referring to himself as an authentic product from Taiwan, Representative Oliver Liao, a career diplomat of the Republic of China (Taiwan), not only presented authentic Taiwanese dishes, but he is a pro at flipping an oyster omelette.
And he definitely knows how to make the tastiest Bubble tea,...
The United States on Tuesday rebuked Israel over airstrikes on a Syrian airbase Turkey was reportedly helping restore, warning the attack risked destabilizing the...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
The venue holding the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry had to be evacuated due to reports of a fire on Monday morning.
Vusimuzi...
