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United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell

UN climate chief calls for faster action as Bonn climate talks begin

Opening the UN’s mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Simon Stiell urged governments to focus on implementing climate commitments, warning that fossil fuel dependence was driving…

Upward trajectory: Kenyan president William Ruto and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during Ruto’s state visit to South Africa. South Africa’s exports to Kenya grew by 18.9%
compared with 93.3% for imports. Photo: GCIS

SA integrating well in African commerce

Under Ramaphosa, the country’s trade with other regional powers on the continent is growing — but unevenness must be addressed

By 2023, the major hyperscalers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta) operated close to 992 data centres globally, with capacity having doubled in just four years

The hidden costs of AI’s data-centre boom’

By 2023, the major hyperscalers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta) operated close to 992 data centres globally, with capacity having doubled in just four years

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…

Investment: InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town has undergone a R1 billion refurbishment. Photo: IHG

Tourism sector is evolving upwards

Travel is becoming planned, curated and experience-led again. The development pipeline reflects that

Wildfires in Israel. (X)

Fires ablaze in a stolen land: Israel’s trees planted over Palestinian villages are in flames

The genocidal state asks the West for help to fight the fires while its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz

Austerity feeds extremists: Where is Germany headed?

Middle powers, like Germany and South Africa, need to step up their collaboration while striving for a global order based on rules, cooperation and solidarity

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SA opts for quiet diplomacy over impossible mission to Washington

The government is trying instead to build alliances within the G20 as President Trump continues to malign South Africa

EU backs South Africa as Trump increases pressure

Four of the European Union’s ambassadors to Pretoria said they shared the country’s values

Artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s work Rage is a Machine in Times of Senselessness, which appeared on this year’s Venice Biennale

Artists’ blitzkrieg: Criminalised, cancelled, fired, censored

Right-wing German journalists have been snitching on pro-Palestine artists, academics and curators for ‘anti-Semitism’

Taz, die tageszeitung, a well-known German daily newspaper that is recognised for its progressive stance on social, political, and environmental issues has been funded and owned by its readers through a cooperative since 1992. (Photo by Carsten Koall/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Germany’s media resilience: Lessons for Africa?

South Africa plans to leverage its G20 presidency to highlight the barriers to AI readiness and opportunities facing developing countries

(Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Divided Europe faces China’s electric vehicle surge amid growing tensions

For both economies, the path forward must focus on building stronger ties, not severing them

Israeli right-wing activists look at damaged trailer trucks that were carrying humanitarian aid supplies on the Israeli side of the Tarqumiyah crossing with the occupied West Bank on May 13, 2024, after they were vandalised by other activists to protest against aid being sent to the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Oren ZIV / AFP)

Israel’s war on Gaza shows the ‘civilised’ can be the biggest liars and killers

Israel and its Western allies – including the media – have lied or spread the lies about the occupier’s intentions and its actions against Palestinians

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi at the Ngamiland Farmers’ Field Day. Photo: X/@OfficialMasisi

Botswana president lauded for threatening to ‘gift’ Germany with 20 000 elephants over trophy hunting dispute

President Mokgweetsi Masisi has said that a ban on importing of hunting trophies would impoverish the African country’s citizens

Palestine Supporters Demonstrate In Front Of The International Court Of Justice. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

South Africa emerges as a champion of human rights

The country’s case at the World Court exposes Israel’s apartheid actions of creeping dispossession of land, segregation and discrimination, as well as military actions to destroy…

South Africa needs to change its top-down approach, consult communities and fast track the delayed Integrated Energy Plan

South Africa gets more funding for the just energy transition

How the government plans to repay the money is being questioned

Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Photo by Wang Zhao – Pool/Getty Images

China’s diplomatic overture aims to strengthen European bonds

The Chinese premier’s visit to Europe shows the immense potential for a future of shared prosperity, cooperation and peaceful coexistence

COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber. (F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

COP28 climate summit: ‘Expectations high, trust is low’

Wealthy countries must step up and make sure that their pledges to developing countries are met, says COP28 president

Wanted: Former Steinhoff chief executive Markus Jooste missed his date with a German court and now the country wants to extradite him. But South Africa wants him here to face more charges. Graphic: John McCann

Where will Markus Jooste appear in court?

For now, South Africa is reluctant to relinquish him to stand trial in Germany for the corporate fraud that nearly imploded ‘Africa’s Ikea’

Horror: Dresden was reduced to ruins by Allied bombing. Photos: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Getty Images & Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Will we ever grasp the utter futility of war?

Seeing upfront the consequences of violent conflict for people – for generations – is shocking