Three dozen countries are banned from entering America in the year it is hosting the World Cup. Twenty-six of them are African. That’s half of Africa
Closure of Strait of Hormuz can be used as a strategic opportunity to enhance regional cooperation in Africa without further complicating its already strained relationship with…
Across West Asia, they have sanctioned military campaigns, infusing ethnocide and genocide with an ideology that dehumanises the “Other” as an existential threat, unleashing…
Humour, provocation and localisation: Iran’s new digital diplomacy
America’s scale of its invented narratives are hard to match. Trump has normalised the idea that rhetorical bombast matters more than accuracy
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic…
Xenophobia offers a simple but misleading explanation for a complex crisis. It reframes mass unemployment, failing public services and weak governance as a question of belonging
Donald Trump is not Harry Truman, 2026 is not 1945 and Iran is emphatically not Japan
The ANC said US ambassador to SA, Leo Brent Bozell III ‘is not yet an ambassador to SA’
US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, was called in for a formal diplomatic demarche following comments the government described as “undiplomatic”
With oil prices climbing to $120 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz shut, analysts say the G7 missed a critical opportunity to push for peace in the escalating US-Israel-Iran…
US President Donald Trump warned members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms or face ‘certain death’.
The only evidence Muller presents that “Prisons abroad are being run efficiently and humanely with much clearer accountability” are the examples of the GEO company and the…
The Trump administration slapped South Africa with a 30% import tariff, effective last August
The US has not had a permanent ambassador to South Africa since January 2025
After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in
The Puerto Rican superstar’s half-time show was a beautiful act of joy and resistance for black and brown people everywhere
Trevor Noah’s final Grammys moment sparked outrage from Trump, highlighting the uneasy relationship between satire, politics and contro
South Africa’s long-squeezed motorists might find fresh relief next month as recent datafrom the Central Energy Fund (CEF) data points to meaningful fuel price cuts in February —…
The emphasis on might and control risks further weakening America’s position as a dependable global partner in diplomatic settings
