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Trade unions: The key for unions to remain relevant to workers is to address their most basic needs. Photo: My_Cosatu

Unionised workforce still ideal

We are proud of how far Cosatu has come since it was launched 40 years ago in Durban and the role it has played in ending apartheid, securing our constitutional democracy,…

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…

President Cyril Ramaphosa with twenty new Heads of Mission-designate. Photo: Marion Smith

A moment of diplomacy and global connection

The presentation of credentials is a cornerstone of diplomatic protocol, symbolising mutual recognition and the formal commencement of an ambassador’s duties

Fast moving: The Faizan Global Relief Foundation (FGRF) launched a food distribution campaign targeting
100 000 vulnerable households across Malawi in February. Photo: Radio Islam Malawi/Facebook

Malawi’s aid vacuum draws new actors

As Western donors pull back and food insecurity deepens in the landlocked south-eastern African nation, the rise of a UK-registered Islamic charity is exposing both the necessity…

Healing the world: With support from such countries as Norway, South Africa stands at the precipice of punching above its weight in providing
global health solutions. Photo: Supplied

Norway: Supporting South Africa’s leadership in the G20

South Africa has also taken a leading role in global health financing and pandemic preparedness

Support: The principles underlying South Africa’s liberation from oppressive apartheid rule are captured at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Norway continues to show solidarity  through development aid to those countries in need. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Struggles for freedom still relevant today

Shifting geopolitics is highlighting new and old arenas of conflict and violations of international law

Flight Centre’s year in travel 2024: where you went and where you’re headed next…

Your ticket to insider travel scoops, data bites, and expert predictions for the year ahead

Best tours for over 50s: Your next adventure awaits

Flight Centre brings you loads of tours suitable for over 50s which let you see the world with likeminded travellers in a similar age bracket

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

Spain joins South Africa’s Gaza case at International Court of Justice

Spain is one of the European countries that has been most critical of Israel over the war in Gaza

Norway Oil. Photo: Getty Images

South Africa must rethink how to frame problems and solutions

Lessons from China and Norway on how capacities can be channelled to deliver on priorities and ensure activity with notable outcomes

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks about climate finance as compared to fossil fuel finance and subsides during the presentation the new Climate TRACE platform, a highly detailed facility-level global inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, at the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 09, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Climate TRACE combines open-source data and imagery from multiple satellite systems with artificial intelligence to determine actual emissions of greenhouse gases, including CO2 and methane, from sites across the globe. According to the data the single highest emitter is the oil-producing Permian Basin in Texas. The COP27 conference is bringing together political leaders and representatives from 190 countries to discuss climate-related topics including climate change adaptation, climate finance, decarbonisation, agriculture and biodiversity. The conference is running from November 6-18. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Western thirst for African gas raises alarm at COP27

Some African leaders argued the potential benefits for people on the world’s poorest continent outweighed the harm from the production and export of fossil fuels

Ready-made solution: The Shackbuilder team constructs a house in Wesbank as an architecture student from Norway (left) documents the process. Photos: David Harrison

The Shackbuilder group teaches, and learns, from Norwegian architects

‘People are really noticing the work we do for the community,’ says a former unemployed youngster, now project leader at growing construction enterprise, Marvin Blauw

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Nomzi Khumalo’s ‘The Truth’ tells it like it is

Nomzi Kumalo is brutally honest. Her melancholic but beautiful songs speak the truth and are often inspired by her poetry

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

A murder in Congo

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

On Sunday Guaido also announced that he would push for Caracas to rejoin the Inter-American Defense Treaty, which Venezuela left in 2012. (Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)

Guaido says talks with Venezuela govt to resume, move to Barbados

​Dialogue between Venezuela’s opposition and President Maduro’s government will resume in Barbados, self-declared interim president Juan Guaido said

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

Venezuela’s Guaido says Norway talks to continue

Delegations representing the Venezuelan rivals met face-to-face in Oslo for the first time this week in a process begun two weeks ago

South Africa has dropped to number 31 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SA drops in World Press Freedom rankings

South Africa has dropped three places in the Press Freedom Index

The author questions mining minister, Gwede Mantashe’s sovereign wealth fund. (David Harrison/M&G)

Sovereign wealth fund would put graft over the top

Although the idea of a sovereign wealth fund to develop our country is a nice one in principle, it may not be the best idea we have had.

(Jason Redmond/Reuters)

Some countries ground Boeings, most keep them flying

Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 medium-haul workhorse jet was grounded in China, Ethiopia and Indonesia on Monday after an Ethiopian Airlines crash

Ubuntu challenges the dominant views that dehumanise, isolate, stigmatise and exclude those living with disabilitiesPhoto: File

South Africa’s new higher education disability policy is important, but flawed

South Africa has a new policy framework for students with disabilities but will it bring real change?