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Lest we forget: In February 1991, Indian army forces laid siege to the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpura where, for hours, soldiers separated men from women and gang-raped women and girls aged 13 to 80. Photo: Supplied

Sexual violence and the weaponisation of the law

When we condemn Israeli apartheid but remain silent on Indian occupation, we fail to recognise that these are not separate struggles but part of a shared architecture of…

Conditional: Iran has accepted the ceasefire but on certain terms.

Immediate ceasefire declared as US and Iran head to Islamabad talks

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic…

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…

Boon or doom: Cap des Biches in Senegal is an 86 MW thermal generation facility developed and constructed by Contour Global in two phases.
Photo: Contour

IFC’s new gas projects will destroy Africa

This is a familiar pattern. International financial institutions socialise risk and privatise profit, while invoking development rhetoric to justify fossil fuel expansion in the…

Can of worms: KwaZulu-Natal Police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi laid the ground work for the commissions and probes currently sitting.

A glance beyond the 6 July presser

The public confrontation between senior officials, the establishment of inquiries and the intense public debate surrounding the allegations all indicate that accountability…

Voices under Siege: Standing with Kashmir

Just as apartheid could not be normalised by time or silence, neither can the systematic denial of human rights in Kashmir

The conflict between India and Pakistan goes back to Partition in 1947. Conflict has flared up regularly in Kashmir since then including in 2019 (above) and now in 2025. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Kashmir’s ‘Black Day’ a reminder that the freedom struggle continues

The people of Kashmir and Palestine have suffered oppression for many decades, both starting with the British and then by India and Israel, respectively

South Africa’s Keshav Maharaj reacts after dismissing Bangladesh’s Tanzim Hasan Sakib during the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup 2024 group D cricket match between South Africa and Bangladesh at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in East Meadow, New York on June 10, 2024. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

T20 World Cup: Thrilling low-scoring matches, surprising upsets, and South Africa’s rollercoaster journey

The ninth edition of the tournament has everything spectators could wish for

A Pakistani police officer stands guard outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad on January 18, 2024. Pakistan said on January 18 it had carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, after Tehran launched attacks on Pakistani territory earlier this week. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Nine dead in Pakistan strikes on Iran

Pakistan said the ‘precision military strikes’ were against terrorist hideouts

Of the planet’s rarest species, the Himalayan brown bear. Picture: Supplied.

SA team helps safeguard Himalayan brown bear

Himalayan Brown Bears, Critically Endangered, University of the Free State, Pakistan, Francois Deacon, Willem Daffue, Saving the Survivors

Pakistani Christian Perveen Bibi (L) weeps outside the torched Saint John Church in Jaranwala on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 17, 2023, a day after an attack by Muslim men following  allegations that Christians had desecrated the Koran. Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP

Christian homes and churches vandalised in Pakistan blasphemy riot

Christians make up around two percent of the population and occupy one of the lowest rungs in Pakistani society

Pakistani people move to a safer place for a flooded water due to the flood situation in Tando Jam city of Sindh. (Photo by Jan Ali Laghari/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Pakistan floods show we must shift the global financing system in the age of climate change

More nuanced and constructive ways of measuring the vulnerabilities of nation states to climate crises are required

Displaced people wade through a flooded area in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Pakistan floods highlight need for climate ‘loss and damage’ help

Torrential monsoon rains have killed more than a thousand, left a third of Pakistan under water and displaced hundreds of thousands

It’s been 30 years since South Africa signed the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and stuck to it

OPINION| Global nuclear disarmament is long overdue

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a step in the right direction, but the world will remain unbalanced while nine states still hold these dangerous weapons

Eradicating wild polio would eradicate so much tragedy

Over the past two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts to combat vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND – MARCH 05: Shabnim Ismail of South Africa celebrates catching out Salma Khatun of Bangladesh during the 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup match between Bangladesh and South Africa at University Oval on March 05, 2022 in Dunedin, New Zealand. (Joe Allison-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)

World Cup: Proteas need to punch above their prestige

South Africa sailed past past the Bangladeshis in their opener but somehow failed to convince in doing so

MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA – 2022/01/29: A Muslim man wearing a protective face mask checks his phone as he walks past a graffiti in Mumbai.
Coronavirus graffiti’s are painted to create awareness and spread the message about maintaining social distance, wearing face masks and sanitizing regularly. (Photo by Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

India today: A place between hope and despair

Diversity is especially meant to be celebrated on India’s Republic Day, 26 January. But another legacy haunts the Indian republic — the colonial policy of divide and rule, of…

New Zealand’s cricket team to return to Pakistan

The Black Caps will tour Pakistan from December 2022 to January 2023 to play two World Test Championship fixtures and three one-day internationals, New Zealand administrators said.

A man watches a television report showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 19, 2021, after the South’s military said a North Korean weapons test was believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Even the mind of Dante could not imagine the inferno a nuclear war will plunge us into

The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trial and errors, its success and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned

Tricks up his sleeve: Wrist-spinner Tabraiz Shamsi is a magician both off and on the pitch. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

T20 Cricket World Cup: Same old Proteas or renewed hope?

Proteas steer course twixt hope and dread