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The six South Africans who were captured by Israel while part of the Global Sumud Flotilla last week are set to return home on Tuesday

Gaza flotilla sails on despite attacks

Along with drone attacks, the fleet faces a political campaign to delegitimise it

Sea levels are rising as a result of global warming. Photo: File

ICJ: Every country obligated by climate and other international laws to stop global warming

This obligation arises from human rights, maritime and the customary international law, as well as the Paris Agreement and other climate change treaties and laws

President Cyril Ramaphosa.(@PresidencyZA/X)

Africa stakes its place

Cyril Ramaphosa’s trip abroad this week included arguing for Africa to be given a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council

Representation: Sierra Leone, which assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council in August, has called for permanent representation for Africa at the Security Council. President Julius Maada Bio has underscored the need to ensure Africa rightfully holds its place in the council. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Beyond Africa’s permanent membership of the UN Security Council

What Africa could gain from the Summit of the Future to nurture good governance on the continent.

A tanker delivers water to Hammanskraal in Tshwane. (Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Editorial | Water: A matter of life and death

South Africa’s service delivery woes have attracted all manner of violence. As water becomes more scarce, things will get worse

On notice: International Court of Justice Judge President Joan Donoghue, watched by Israel’s and South Africa’s defence teams, delivers the order on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel on 26 January in The Hague, Netherlands.  (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Iron cloak of security: Behind SA’s risky decision to take on Israel

South Africa’s decision to take Israel, the West’s darling, to the International Court of Justice for genocidal intent was brave politics

President Cyril Ramaphosa. File photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

Ramaphosa goes on charm offensive during US visit

The president has sought to clinch an early extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act during his New York visit

The government’s Aids policies sparked protests like the one pictured in 2001 in Cape Town. (Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Images)

World leaders can choose the path that ends Aids

World leaders can choose the path that ends Aids

The Mojapelo panel has completed its investigation into the Lady R controversy and is drafting a report to President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Facebook/ Lorraine Goddard Bradbury)

Russia denies weapons were loaded onto the Lady R

The Russian embassy says the claims are part of a campaign to move South Africa from its non-aligned position on the war in Ukraine

A sign in solidarity with the people of Ukraine is seen hanging from a pedestrian bridge in Cape Town on Wednesday morning. (Photo by David Harrison)

Why is South Africa not condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has breached international law and South Africa argues that the matter must be resolved through dialogue — but this assumes the autocrat and rogue leader will…

‘Poor children slip down the early childhood development childcare ladder — they don’t climb up that ladder

Child rights and the daily life of children: Eight things we know

Children are primed to interact from birth; don’t hit children; spend quality time with them; children need fathers; children need one adoring adult; children need quality and…

Changes in news consumption practices and in the information ecosystem have hit newspapers hard

Call for a New Deal for Journalism to strengthen democracy

Changes in news consumption practices and in the information ecosystem have hit newspapers hard

Israeli forces intervene in Palestinians protesting Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip with tear gas during a demonstration held as part of the 73rd anniversary of Nakba, on May 17, 2021 in Nablus, West Bank. (Photo by Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel-Palestine conflict: The past laid the violent foundations

Israel’s iron grip over Palestinians had its beginnings in the demise of the Ottoman Empire and Britain and France’s arbitrary mapping out of the Middle East

South Africa was elected to serve on the Council by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2018. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
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SA takes up seat on UN Security Council

South Africa’s tenure in the Security Council will be dedicated to the legacy of former president Nelson Mandela

Research shows that drug-resistant TB accounts for a quarter of the 10-million deaths that might be associated with antimicrobial resistance by 2020.
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This kills more than 700 of us each day. Now, the UN wants to do something about it.

In a historic first, the UN just held a high-level meeting on TB. There was one on lifestyle diseases too. But did these sittings achieve anything?

Tensions with Tehran are also at fever pitch after Trump pulled back from military action at the last minute in response to the downing of an unmanned US drone. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

READ IN FULL: Trump’s address to the UN General Assembly

President Donald Trump’s addressed the United Nations General Assembly today where he emphasised that ‘America is governed by Americans’

The United Nations Security Council.

ANC hails SA’s election to UN Security Council as ‘victory for peace’

South Africa was elected on Friday to serve in the United Nations Security Council for the term 2019-2020 as a non-permanent member

Thabang Selo organises asbestos miners in the Kgatelopele municipality

Zimbabwe’s first shoppers keep on rolling

Grace Mugabe’s eldest son, Russell Goreraza, has recently purchased two luxury Rolls-Royce limousines — worth a neat R70-million together

From sea to snow: Snowboarding at Iran’s Shemshak ski resort and calm waters off Kish Island. (Caren Firouz, Reuters)

Iran’s president takes steps to boost tourism

With its glittering mosques and spectacular landscapes, Iran’s new leaders are overhauling visa requirements to boost its tourism industry.

Omar al-Bashir address to bring unease to UN general assembly

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who faces international war crimes charges, could shake things up if he shows up at UN general assembly.