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Fleeing: Media is urged to stop calling white South Africans who relocated to United States ‘refugees’.

Why the media should stop calling white South Africans ‘refugees’

Mzansi is many things: unequal, violent, frustrated, politically volatile and economically strained. But it is not a war zone. Dissatisfaction with governance, fears about crime,…

US President Donald Trump and his Israeli ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s shambolic war has shut the Strait of Hormuz, creating a diplomatic fallout with US allies. Photo: Avi Ohayon (GPO)

Easter in the time of war

The senseless US-Israel war has caused economic tremors around the world and sucked all of us into an unprecedented crisis characterised by soaring oil prices, the wanton…

US President Donald Trump (Flickr)

Climate leaders condemn US withdrawal from UN frameworks

The US is set to exit the UN climate treaty and key global science institutions under a Trump directive, a move critics say will isolate the country and deepen climate and…

Tariff tiff: President Donald Trump in a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: The Whitehouse

High cost of US decoupling from China

Tariffs were meant to punish Chinese exporters and encourage American manufacturing; instead, they have raised prices for US consumers

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Supplied

Mashatile: We won’t beg Trump

He said South Africa should look for alternative markets rather than relying on America

Africa’s choice should not be limited to East v West but rather to move from dependence to balance through diversified partnerships based in mutual respect and shared benefit. Photo: File

Africa, the US and the East: In search of balance in a changing world

South Africa and the continent need to quietly assert control over their future through investment, innovation and intellectual engagement

Pope Leo XIV. (X)

Pope Leo a breath of fresh air in Trump’s belligerent world

The new pope’s gentle, yet powerful, voice of peace, ethical leadership and human solidarity contrasts sharply with Trump’s divisive rhetoric and militarism

US President Donald Trump said this week that the tariff is meant to address the trade imbalance between South Africa and the US. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/picture alliance)

The problem of stupidity

In a world of media that rewards outrage over nuance, we have populace that finds comfort in slogans and simple explanations for complicated problems – but there is hope

The G20 is a forum of the largest economies in the world who meet regularly to discuss the most pressing issues facing the global economy. (Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images/Getty Image)

Trump administration might put AU and South Africa’s G20 membership into play

Political analysts should pay more attention to the G20 Johannesburg Summit given Donald Trump’s bid to restore meritocracy and dilute diversity

We will find out allies among the American people, not its government led by Donald Trump. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

As Trump releases his remix, we must not lose sight of relationships

We will find out allies among the American people, not its government

After you: In the Maasai Mara migration, the early bird – or beest – is more likely to be eaten by a crocodile. Photo: Supplied

It’s cool to be kind … in traffic

As Trump cuts through cultural norms faster than through executive orders, there is still value in politeness

Graphic: John McCann/M&G

Trapped in an extreme world

The real Slim Shady of the M&G newsroom is surprised to find even Trump is just imitating – or so his younger colleagues reckon

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Trump’s budget cut: International Commodity Summit responds aggressively

In response to US President Donald Trump’s budget cuts, ICS2025 will provide an opportunity for dialogue between affected nations, economic leaders, and policymakers to address…

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Why Trump pleaded not guilty in New York court after historic arrest

The twice-impeached Republican is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted

Inflation deeply affects societies that suffer them, yet no democratic process determines where, when or how employers’ decisions to inflate prices lead to those impacts.

Behind the ‘economic policy’ façade, it’s class war

Inflation, that ‘problem’ torturing capitalist economies these days, offers us the first example of such policies

Capitalism in crisis: US President Joe Biden (pictured during his inaugural address, above) may be far from Donald Trump ideologically, but both leaders’ parties are imprisoned in a neoliberal capitalist mode of thought, argues the author. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty/AFP & Bettmann)

The American political process is disconnected from economic reality

While the Democrats and Republicans use an outdated political playbook, people need protection from the capitalist system itself

A factory of the National Moroccan phosphates company (OCP/public) in Marca, near Laayoune, the capTial of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara. As a global leader in the market for phosphate and its derivatives, OCP has been a key player in the international market since its founding in 1920, the world’s largest exporter of phosphate rock and phosphoric acid and one of the world’s largest fertiliser producers.  (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP)

Morocco drives a war in Western Sahara for its phosphates

Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara is about the presence of resources, especially phosphates that make up 72% of the world’s reserves. Phosphate is used in fertiliser, a key…

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Khaya Sithole: Tax fails; a few get richer, more get poor

The Covid-19 pandemic created wealth for some, including internet entrepreneurs, and poverty for many

A drive-thru testing station in the US, where over 200 000 people died from Covid-19 due to failure to contain the disease (Neon)

Totally gone mad: Covid-19 and the Trump presidency

Tracing America’s bungling of the containment of the coronavirus, Totally Under Control unveils the deep rot in Trump’s presidency

United States president Donald Trump.  (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Vote, if you want to save the US from the one-man wrecking crew

It’s worth surmounting the voter suppression obstacles — but on the other side litigation and postal votes will probably delay the results of the presidential poll