By Mirna Fahmy
Remember that UN warning back in early June about El Niño cooking up brutal heatwaves across the planet? Well, it wasn't bluffing! By June 18th, nearly 45% of European cities were already gasping under record-breaking heat, and the month hadn't even wrapped up yet.
This is not the...
By Dr. Mabutho Shangase*
During the proceedings of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, a notable exchange occurred when a testifying politician asserted that South Africa is fundamentally a colonial entity, whose borders are artificial constructs imposed by colonial powers. Paraphrasing the exchange,...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
In eThekwini’s metro township of Hammersdal sporadic incidents of looting occurred at a tuckshop but this was about the most chaotic incident incited by the protests...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced changes to the National Executive following consultation with the leadership of the Democratic Alliance as a member of the Government of National Unity (GNU).
“These...
The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a report urging the European Union to consider human rights sanctions against Turkish Justice Minister Akın Gürlek, naming the former İstanbul chief public prosecutor as a key figure in what lawmakers described as the state’s machinery of repression.
Lawmakers approved the resolution by 381...
By Dr. Mabutho Shangase*
During the proceedings of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, a notable exchange occurred when a testifying politician asserted that South Africa is fundamentally a colonial entity, whose borders are artificial constructs imposed by colonial powers. Paraphrasing the exchange,...
Türkiye is reshaping the Middle East through railways, alliances, and internal electoral manipulation, but Hadi Elis explores how the architecture of its ambition rests on contradictions it may not...
South Africa is in the midst of its most significant anti-immigrant mobilisation in years.
The emergence of the March and March movement, calls for the mass deportation of undocumented migrants by 30...
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,...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
After two months of sitting at the helm of the Democratic Alliance (DA) leadership, Geordin Hill-Lewis has called for former DA...
By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider
The South African government has expressed that they will not be taking illegal immigration lightly and has continued to affirm that...
Marches, Mozambicans murdered, state-sponsored evacuations, a nationally televised presidential address. Anti-immigrant mobilisation has again drawn the world’s...
