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Gillian Schutte is a South African writer, filmmaker and political analyst. She specialises in African politics, geopolitics, multipolarity, media power, Western imperialism and the unfinished question of African sovereignty in post-apartheid South Africa.
The World Bank and IMF have exposed the political nature of scarcity. Deficits receive permission when they serve Western strategy.
The sheer brilliance of Iran’s three-tiered governance structure
The farce lies in the performance of Pan-Africanism without power. It lies in institutions that speak of unity while African economies remain exposed to rating agencies, foreign…
The Bar will invoke the cab-rank rule, which generally requires counsel to accept a brief in a field where they practise, even when they dislike the client or cause. Yet the rule…
Iran has drawn the line at Hormuz through sovereignty, anti-colonial memory and strategic endurance. Washington, Israel and Europe continue to answer with war, siege and sanctions
On Workers’ Day 2026, the typical white worker still stands far above the typical black African worker in a labour market built through conquest, land theft and racial rule
The Lego blocks have done what a thousand NGO reports cannot do. They have made it clear that the emperor is butt naked.
When foreign governments, organisations or political networks speak about offering South African farmers land, visas or farming opportunities abroad, they should define farming…
Errol Musk has dragged a racist myth to Russia’s door. Russia should close that door politely, firmly and publicly
United States President Donald Trump has turned Iran-US negotiations into a test of Brics power after threatening to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants unless Tehran accepts…
The West does not have a moral claim over African security. African states retain the right to choose partners according to their own historical interests. A multipolar world…
The Russian Embassy has moved to counter media speculation around Errol Musk’s visit to Russia, stressing that no farmer relocation programme exists and that the discussions…
Coverage of Ukrainian children often fixes blame on Russia and leaves the conduct of the Ukrainian government in the background, even though the evidence of exploitation, forced…
Israel chose targets at the heart of domestic survival because its planners know that fuel in a capital powers ambulances, clinics, refrigeration, generators, pumping systems,…
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They…
The country’s marginalised people have suffered deprivation and indignity for decades
The thought-provoking series invites us to explore the depths and power of human psychology, through the lenses of women
After my son took his own life after becoming a victim, I urge other parents to discuss this scourge with their children
Widespread calls for "Larney, Jou Poes!" to be banned stem from feelings of white guilt and trepidation aroused by the song’s raw antagonism.
Gillian Schutte takes a look at "Miners Shot Down", the first feature on the Marikana massacre, and asks where the missing links are.
