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The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Manufacturing a presidential candidate: The case of Kamala Harris

The US vice-president needs to come up with a message that resonates with the white middle and working class to win them over in this election

Stitch in time: East Africa’s biggest economy, Kenya, exported clothing worth $380 million in 2015, when the US extended Agoa by a decade. Discussions are underway this week to renew the trade agreement once more. Photo: Riccardo Gangale/Getty Images

Africa to leverage East-West battle in Agoa talks

Africa’s stock is rising amid the United States’ efforts to wrestle back economic influence on the continent

Power: Members of the US union United Auto Workers attend a rally in support of striking in Chicago last month. Photo: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

Agoa and labour’s ‘nothing about us, without us’ moment

Trade unions from the US and sub-Saharan Africa will be calling for decent work to be put on the agenda at this week’s Agoa forum

Johannesburg is submerged in darkness during load-shedding .  (AFP)

It’s the economy, stupid?

For all of South Africa’s political bluster, the raw finances of our economy will remain the determining factor of its 2024 elections

US President Donald Trump (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Historic Trump impeachment trial to begin in earnest

President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial begins in earnest on Tuesday in the Senate, with Democrats calling for his removal from office and Republicans determined to…

President Donald Trump. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Trump trial likely to begin next Tuesday: Senate chief

The Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump is likely to begin in seven days with key players sworn in later this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said…

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on border security at the White House. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

US government shutdown breaks record as eyes remain on Trump

The partial shutdown has reached a 24-day impasse, and the question in the air is will the president declare a national emergency?

“When it comes to situations like this, we athletes sometimes get to be scared of the challenge, because we think about what we’ve got to lose. Then we forget there’s a future,” said Caster Semenya. (AFP)

IAAF gender rules ‘killing’ next generation – Semenya

Semenya, with the backing of the South African Athletics federation, has turned to the Lausanne-based CAS in her challenge of IAAF rules

A member of the New York Police Department bomb squad is pictured outside the Time Warner Center in the Manhattan borough of New York City after a suspicious package was found inside the CNN Headquarters in New York. (Kevin Coombs/Reuters)

Mail bombs to US political figures, media: What we know

The first bomb was discovered on Monday in a mailbox at the New York home of billionaire financier and Democratic Party supporter George Soros

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on the media to stop their “endless hostility” and “false attacks”. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

Trump asks media to ‘stop hostility’ after bomb sent to top democrats, CNN

‘We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property. There is one way to settle our disagreements’

The Secret Service said it recovered a single package addressed to Clinton in Westchester, a suburb north of Manhattan on Tuesday, and a second package addressed to the Obama residence in Washington on Wednesday. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)

Suspicious packages target Obama, Clintons

Both Democrats remain two of the most high-profile political figures in the US, which goes to the polls on November 6 in key midterm elections

“I differ with Ms Williams on a number of things, but on this one, we are together,” Manyi says. (Thapelo Morebudi/Sowetan)

Trump Supreme Court pick faces tough hearings in Congress

Some two dozen witnesses are lined up to argue for and against confirming Brett Kavanaugh, who could swing the nine-member high court

A respected and robust United States — with all of our flaws, mistakes and missteps — can be good for the defence of democracy, not least in Africa.

EXPLAINER: Why Trump has not been impeached — and likely won’t be

Trump will not be removed from office until Republicans in the House decide to support the idea or the midterms hand the Democrats more seats

Khensani Maseko was buried at the Calgro M3 Memorial Park in Nasrec on Thursday. Her family, in a reference to her rape by her former boyfriend, condemned all violence against women. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

US-China trade needs a strategic rethink

Global prosperity requires that the multilateral free-trade system be maintained and strengthened

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas

Handshakes that shook the world

When the leaders of North and South Korea reached across the Military Demarcation Line to shake hands, they symbolically united the peninsula

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Sex and the White House: From Clinton to Trump

Today, another US president is accused of sexual impropriety – specifically of paying off a porn star one month before the November 2016 election

Donald Trump addresses supporters after being declared by the television networks as the winner of the Nevada Repulican caucuses at his caucus night rally in Las Vegas

Trump forced into apology after disturbing remarks about women surface in leaked video

During the taped conversation, Trump talks about the ease of seducing women because of fame.

We take a look at some of the high and low points of Mandela’s memorial

Reflecting on Mandela’s state memorial

We take a look at some of the high and low points of Mandela’s memorial, including Barack Obama’s speech, booing crowds and Desmond Tutu’s reprimand.

A file photograph of Nelson Mandela with former US President Bill Clinton in 2003. Clinton is set to come to South Africa for Mandela’s funeral.

SA prepares to host world leaders for Mandela funeral

Ahead of former president Nelson Mandela’s state funeral in Qunu next Sunday, SA has begun its preparation to welcome international leaders.

President Barack Obama was defiant to the Republican-led Congress in his State of the Union Address.

Clinton, Obama and the US govt shutdown

Sex scandals and political setbacks might have brought out the best in US leaders Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, writes Khaya Dlanga.