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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…

As Europe tightens emissions rules and imports gain market share, carmakers say South Africa must urgently align industrial policy with the global shift to new-energy vehicles

Surge of imports and lack of EV readiness disrupts the automotive industry

As Europe tightens emissions rules and imports gain market share, carmakers say South Africa must urgently align industrial policy with the global shift to new-energy vehicles

Antimicrobial resistance silent pandemic that already claims more than 1.3 million lives every year. File photo

Aid cuts, including by UK, undermine progress on fight against superbugs

Antimicrobial resistance threatens global health and economic stability. Urgent investment in surveillance, innovation and stewardship is critical to containment

Making it: Michelle and Morongwe Mokone are the co-founders of Mo’s Crib, which produces decor items out of recycled materials.

Sisters in sustainability: The inspiring journey of Mo’s Crib

The siblings turned a passion for eco-friendly design into decor company Mo’s Crib

EFF leader Julius Malema. Photo: Victoria O’Regan/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Malema: ‘We’ll work with West if it suits us but will look East’

The EFF leader said it was nonsensical to argue that the nationalisation and expropriation of land would repel investors

Protestors holding anti- war posters march on the Golden Mile Beach in Durban, as a show of support for the Ukrainian people, protesting against Russias invasion into Ukraine, and calling for the South African government to condemn the action of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP) (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Cold War 2.0 | Where can South Africa stand other than on its non-aligned perch?

As a country, our struggling economy is hitched to both the prospects of the East and the West. Being frozen out by any of them, would be punishing for all

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via Afp

Facing up to the damaging and disruptive economic realities of 2022

Economic war rages on as global power dynamics shift.

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

UK set for ruling on plan to deport migrants to Rwanda

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

Prime Minister Mark Rutte

Dutch expected to apologise for 250 years of slavery

Prime minister expected to give speech on ‘meaningful moment’

As South Africa steps into a new chapter with the Climate Change Act, it is crucial to question the depth of its commitment and the substance of its promises. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

COP27: SA receives an extra $10-bn to shift from fossil fuels

But the funding will come at a price, given that the $8.5-bn pledged last year, was mostly in the form of loans

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London. (Photo by House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images)

South Africa’s ANC, like the Tories, rides the ‘tiger’ of populism

Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path

New UK prime minister Liz Truss gives her first speech at Downing Street on September 6, 2022 in London, England. The new prime minister assumes her role at Number 10 Downing Street after defeating fellow Conservative Rishi Sunak in the contest for party leader. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Liz Truss: New UK prime minister’s links to right-wing think tanks

MP says Truss could be a ‘puppet’ for ‘dark money’ groups that have already generated a dozen of her policies

UK: Sunak leads first round of voting to replace Johnson

Six candidates, including former finance minister Rishi Sunak, are now in the running to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader. Voting will continue next week until…

Offshore detention survivors condemn UK’s Rwanda asylum seekers scheme

Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘offer’ migrants a ‘choice’ between returning to their war-torn countries and Rwanda mimics Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’ where people were dumped for…

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

OPINION | A revitalised Non-Aligned Movement could help foster global peace

The principles of pacifism, justice and international cooperation could help rebalance the scales of global politics away from racist wars and toward a peaceful future

Boris Johnson meets Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame. (Photo: AARON CHOWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The UK’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism

Moving unwanted arrivals out of sight grants political footholds to richer nations in host regions

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Skills crunch in the state? Use outside experts

Advisers – not consultants – can help close critical gaps in government where the loss of key skills leaves the president desperately needing to enhance the state’s capacity to…

The House of Lords is expected to pass legislation that will make it illegal for citizens to bring home any animal body part.  (JENS-ULRICH KOCH/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

UK decision to ban trophy-hunting imports disregards South Africa’s conservation success, government says

Animal rights groups say trophy hunting is unsustainable in sub-Saharan Africa, but research finds a ban on imports could have negative socioeconomic consequences

Munya Chawawa
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Africans of the Year: Munya Chawawa

Skewering Britain’s ruling elite: The world today is so crazy that it sometimes seems as if it’s beyond satire – unless you’re Zimbabwean-born comic Munya Chawawa