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Triad of evil: President Donald Trump, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio monitor
US military operations in Venezuela. Photo by Molly Rile

Empire by another name

Under international law, regime change, coercive economic measures and military intervention are unlawful unless authorised by the UN Security Council

Graffiti for the freedom of Marwan Barghouti, a jailed political activist from Fatah. (Flickr)

Why Marwan Barghouti’s name matters

Hamas’s demand for Barghouti’s release reflects his symbolic and political weight

If a state can unilaterally suspend the rights of a racialised group or dump people onto foreign soil, no citizen’s rights are secure

From Rome to Gaza: How power distracts, censors and controls

Palestine today is not merely a geographic site of struggle; it is a mirror reflecting humanity’s oldest contest — between power and truth, silence and expression, spectacle and…

Floating ideas: South African activists who were aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla returned home this week. Photo: Busi Lethole

US think tank vs South Africa’s solidarity with Palestine

Organisation urges pressure on the country, citing ties with Hamas

The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File

The mask of apartheid – privatisation

The state once enforced exclusion through law, now racial inequality is decentralised and enforced by private actors through economics, technology, the law, capital and technology

South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain.  (File photo)

Economic apartheid: South Africa’s transition a warning for a two-state agreement for Palestine

South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions

The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist

Surveillance technology is increasingly being used to monitor civilians.

Digital occupation: How surveillance technologies repress dissent from Gaza to Cape Town

This creeping form of observation marks a dangerous evolution in how power is exercised and dissent controlled

Growing reliance on military-grade surveillance has drawn concern from civil society and privacy advocates.

Watching from above: Surveillance in Cape Town

As Cape Town continues its investment in digital security infrastructure, the challenge lies in balancing innovation with accountability, and enforcement with the protection of…

Palestinians have been persecuted ever since the formation of Israel.

Nakba 2.0: The catastrophe continues

Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000…

More than 2,000 people – 55 from South Africa – have converged in Egypt in a show of international solidarity. Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Stolen childhoods: Israel’s war on Palestinian children

The illegal detention of children and their physical and psychological abuse, is a deliberate strategy to rob Palestine of its future

(John McCann/M&G)

Lessons for Israel from South Africa

There are many parallels between apartheid South Africa and Israel today — perhaps a one-state solution is not that far away

A view of wreckage of buildings after Israeli airstrike hit residential areas in the southern parts in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Limits of military power: Israel struggles for global legitimacy

Israel’s military exports and ‘emotional extortion’ have thus far given it diplomatic protection against its injustices in the Middle East and role in global conflict

Futile: Palestinians live among the wreck and rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images

Secret alliance: Israel and apartheid South Africa’s nuclear collaboration

With both countries intent on keeping in check the ‘barbarians at the gate’, South Africa used its uranium reserves and Israeli technical support to develop its nuclear programme

Many rockets, fired from Iran, are seen over Jerusalem from Hebron, West Bank on October 01, 2024.  (Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Explosive Israel-Iran showdown fuels nuclear tension and regional power struggle

With Israel evasive about its nuclear capabilities, and watchdogs silent, friction is mounting

Apple, Dell and Nvidia have supply chains in China and rely on components manufactured.

Pegasus spyware: The dark side of global surveillance

The shadowy, unregulated spyware industry is enabling authoritarian regimes around the world and is a threat to civil liberties

hile in prison, Yahya Sinwar wrote The Thorn and the Carnation. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Thorn and the Carnation: A novel by a Palestinian leader during his incarceration in Israeli prisons

Yahya Sinwar writes that ‘despite tireless attempts to erase their Arab identity, Islamic faith and Palestinian heritage, they remain more steadfast than anyone could have…

More than 9,623 Palestinians are currently detained in Israeli prisons. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)

Israel uses military law, detention without trial to control Palestinians

Although illegal under international law, Israel justifies these actions as necessary for state security