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Seeking solutions: Sudan’s war is no longer just a Sudanese tragedy. It is a continental stress test, say the two writers and it is unfolding largely without decisive African leadership. Photo: File

Lack of principled African leadership, action in Sudan

What began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the leaders of the SAF and RSF has evolved into widespread abuses, generating the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with…

Remembered:  The genocide of the Tutsi was not the product of primordial tribal feeling but it was the product of a political project, carefully constructed over decades. Photo: Rwanda Government

Becoming umwana – a son: Part 2

The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to…

Never again: The Walk to Remember, an annual, solemn, youth-led event on 7 April to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Photo: Flickr

Africa’s unfinished reckoning

The question is not whether the world recognises the genocide against the Tutsi. It does. The question is whether the continent has claimed it — intellectually, historically and…

Engraved in memory: The Kigali Genocide Memorial engenders remembrance of the genocide’s victims, promoting peace and reconciliation and building peace through education. Photo: Supplied

Becoming Umwana – a son

In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he…

The commemoration, Kwibuka (which means “to remember” in Kinyarwanda), begins on April 7. The country remains in mourning for the rest of the month. Photo: Supplied

Kwibuka32: Never and never again

But as they mourn, remember and reflect on their past, Rwandans are building their country into one of the continent’s shining examples of what can be done when the people unite…

Hit: Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier, Mayuree Naree, near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack in March 2026. Photo: Royal Thai Navy

Iran war and Greater Israel Project

The US-Israel war on Iran is disrupting oil trade, pushing up petrol prices and raising concerns over the growing use of religion to justify war

Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Born out of bondage, Jesse Jackson dies a master of social justice

He fought tooth and nail so that the transatlantic slave trade should not repeat itself anywhere, where our people faced brutal conditions and many lost their lives

Diplomacy: ‘The United States has taken an adversarial, aggressive stance against multilateralism in general. Even in the first term of President
Trump, he did the same with the G7 and other multilateral forums,’ international relations expert Donovan E Williams says. Photo: Supplied

US ratchets up diplomatic war against South Africa

The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott

Francesca Albanese, told an audience at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening that universities, corporations and states have a legal and ethical responsibility to halt what she described as genocide taking place in Gaza. (Nelson Mandela Foundation)

UCT hosts key address as Albanese prepares to present Gaza genocide report to UN

The UN special rapporteur said her report identifies 48 entities linked to ‘displacement and replacement’, a policy she says has taken Palestinians off their land

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occuopied Territories, Francesca Albanese addressed a packed Groote Kerk in Cape Town om SUnday afternoon, 26 October 2025. Photo: David Harrison

Francesca Albanese to present report on the Gaza genocide

The UN special rapporteur will present her report “Gaza Genocide: Collective Crime” to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, from Cape Town

Plight of children: Human rights lawyer, Francesca Albanese,  Photo: Supplied

UPDATED: Francesca Albanese: The world is watching its conscience collapse

Delivering the annual Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, the UN special rapporteur said the laws created to stop states from destroying each other were now being used to justify that…

Law and justice: Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, is in South Africa to deliver the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on Saturday. Photo: Nelson Mandela Foundation

‘I’m not here to make you comfortable’, says UN’s Francesca Albanese

The UN envoy says South Africa is central to the global fight against the genocide in Gaza

Given the close comparison between apartheid and the challenges faced by Palestinians, the government must be called upon to lead the quest for justice. (Flickr)

South Africa’s role in the draft UN Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity

Given the close comparison between apartheid and the challenges faced by Palestinians, the government must be called upon to lead the quest for justice

Desperate: Since the war started 13 million Sudanese civilians have been displaced. Photo: Jérôme Tubiana/Crisis Group

We cannot ignore the Sudanese civil war

Millions have been displaced, millions more are starving and hundreds of thousands are dead, but Africa remains silent

The Samud Flotilla consists of boats from 47 countries and is a symbol of steadfastness against Israel’s occupation and the genocide in Gaza. Photo: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition

Gaza: Steadfastness on the open sea

Countries around the world are increasingly turning against Israel and its aggression in the Middle East. South Africa’s unions and citizens must join in solidarity with…

Photo: File

Palestine: Why do those who were shaped by the European Holocaust so readily replicate its atrocities?

The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre and Jewish Board of Deputies are failing to fulfil their mandates

Under the pretext of ‘self-defence’, Israel has systematically devastated Gaza: nearly 63,000 Palestinians killed, including more than 18,500 children; 2200 entire families erased; and civilian infrastructure reduced to rubble, and starvation. Photo: AP (March 2021)

Zionism’s modern atrocities echo the horrors of Nazism

The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians

There has always been a special bond between the liberation struggles in South Africa and Palestine, rooted in their shared experience of brutal settler colonial oppression.

The blood of South Africa’s past demands we condemn genocide in Gaza

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, ‘If you are neutral in the face of suffering, you are on the side of the oppressor’

Israel’s war on Gaza has weaponised food,. Photo: File

Genocide: Israel intentionally starving children to death in Gaza

The Israeli government, politicians and military have stated that all transfers of humanitarian aid – food, equipment, fuel, electricity and water – to Gaza must be stopped

A vigil remembering journalists killed in Palestine held at St.Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady

The Hague Group revives the possibility of a new internationalism

The grouping, made up of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa, is a challenge to the West on Israel’s war in Gaza