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Fighting fire: Wildfire response in South Africa remains heavily dependent on state resources and a limited volunteer base. Photos: Supplied

Fire alert not heeded

South Africa’s approach to wildfire management has not adjusted at the same pace

The pathological hatred Trump inspires on the left and the quasi-religious devotion he commands on the right reflect tensions within American democratic culture. File Photo

The US a nation at a crucial crossroads

Historic parallels of authoritarian states are a cautionary tale for the country known as ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’

A member of the civil defence watches a fire ripping through the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the market of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on October 12, 2024. (Photo by ABBAS FAKIH/AFP via Getty Images)

South Africa condemns Israel’s incursion into Lebanon

The global community cannot remain indifferent to the violation of international law, Dirco said

Australian multinational mining company BHP has confirmed that it made a buyout proposal to Anglo American. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

BHP makes takeover bid for Anglo American

The proposal entails Anglo significantly lowering its exposure to South Africa by demerging its holdings in beleaguered Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore This content is…

Chilean Ex-Allende government Cabinet Minister Carlos Briones (C) partly obscured by microphone,  speaking to a crowd during the memorial organised by the Communist and Socialist parties on the 12th anniversary of the death of the deposed Socialist President Salvadore Allende (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

How public influence over economic matters is eroded

The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation

The decision to form a unity government has been broadly welcomed by economists.

Emerging markets unwinding? Not just yet

Chile and Brazil are leading the pack with their recent interest rate cuts but South Africa is on its own timeline

Warning labels are food for thought

The sugar industry says new regulations aimed at combating health problems will hurt profits and jobs, but a civil society coalition strongly disagrees

Pink tide: Supporters of left-wing Chilean president Gabriel Boric celebrate after the results of the runoff presidential election in Santiago in 2021. (Mauro Pimentel/AFP)

A new current of hope surges across Latin America

Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month

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The most important elections in the Americas is in Brazil

Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications…

Changes: Employees sort items in the Amazon warehouse in England. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Amazon may threaten SA retailers

Amazon plans to move into South Africa in 2023 and the world’s biggest online marketplace might give local companies a run for their money

Laguna Salada, Salar de Atacama, El Norte Grande, Chile

Chile’s lithium a poisoned chalice

It provides profit to billionaires but exhausts the land and its people

Chile’s new President, Gabriel Boric. (Wikimedia Commons)

Workers’ rights at the heart of Chile’s new constitutional convention

The larger class struggle in Chile is mirrored in the struggle for better working conditions for the workers who are rewriting the constitution

US President Joe Biden listens as Vice president Kamala Harris (L) speaks during an event at the White House with members of the National Governors Association on January 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. The National Governors Association concludes its three day winter meeting today.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

US politicians paper over the social problems caused by capitalism

Mainstream American politicians — establishment figures in both major parties — apply the denial and displacement mantra to many problems, especially inflation

Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric speaks during the closing ceremony of the National Business Meeting (ENADE) in Santiago, on January 13, 2022. – Boric is to take office on March 11, 2022. (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP)

Boric’s win paves the way for a bright, new world for women in Chile

The new movement in Chile has significant potential to continue its already ground-breaking march to a new world for all Chileans, and women in particular

Protests: Turkey has seen opposition to the country’s declaration of   ‘an economic war of independence’ by refusing to rein in inflation using higher interest rates and other measures.  (Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty)

Lessons from Turkey to SA: Economic independence is a battle

Without tighter capital controls, regulating the flow of money in and out of their economies, Turkey and South Africa are vulnerable to the whims of the financial markets

An employee walks past stockpiled of coal for shipping at the Richard’s Bay coal terminal, in Richard’s Bay. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

COP26: Momentum gathers to end new coal builds

South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel

A demonstrator waves a Chilean flag next to a fire as clashing with riot police during a protest against President Sebastian Piñera on October 21, 2019 in Santiago, Chile. President Sebastian Piñera suspended the 3.5% subway fare hike and declared the state of emergency for the first time since the return of democracy in 1990. Protests had begun on Friday and developed into looting and arson, generating chaos in Santiago, Valparaiso and a dozen other cities resulting in at least 8 dead.  (Photo by Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

Chile is at the dawn of a new political era

A new constitution is being written after a series of student protests rocked Chilean politics. Now, an upcoming presidential election could shift the country towards economic…

A healthcare worker acknowledges a boy during a COVID-19 vaccination outreach program on September 08, 2021 in Kampung Lok Urai, a remote village at Gaya Island outskirt of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia’s vaccination efforts have started to reach the country’s remote islands such as Gaya Island, off the coast of eastern Sabah state, which is located in Borneo. Better known for their white sand beaches and pristine waters, which were major attractions for divers and tourists before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the vaccination of populations in remote locations in Eastern Malaysia has been gathering pace as officials reach far-flung islands not often visited by teams of health workers. (Photo by Annice Lyn/Getty Images)

As CoronaVac trials kick off children talk about their views on Covid-19 vaccinations

Children from the age of six months to 17 years will take part in vaccine trials

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Editorial: Unrest death count the highest in more than 180 years

We need a commission of inquiry to find the central characters in the tragic event that played out in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

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Editorial: Last week’s unrest: Who is left to clean up the mess?

Once again, people of all races, religions and ages have come together to sort out the devastation that can largely be laid at the doorstep of our government