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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana did not announce a budget allocation to plug the gap created by the termination of USAid funding to HIV/Aids organisations (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)
BRILLIANT

SA leads HIV/Aids vaccine discovery research team

USAID has pumped $45 million in grant funding to support the work of a consortium of top African scientists from eight countries

  • Lyse Comins
3 min read
There’s Joe Biden, former president Barrack Obama’s vice-president for eight years. At the onset of the primary season that status alone catapulted him to the top of every poll as the presumptive nominee.(Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters)
BARACK OBAMA

US presidential campaign 2020: The Democratic conundrum

As Super Tuesday looms, there are five candidates left in the Democratic race. But the party must ensure it selects someone who will be able to defeat incumbent Donald Trump

  • Charles R Stith
7 min read
‘Neither of you turned out the way I hoped you would.’
BARACK OBAMA

The inauguration of the end of the world (as we know it)

What the hell happened? How did we go from hope to hate? Where did all the grown-ups go? Is this really the end?

  • Js Smit
3 min read
Making it to the cover of Time magazine has already be taken off West’s bucket list.
KANYE WEST

Roll over, Hillary Clinton, Yeezy’s got designs on the top job

"It would be unusual for someone to go directly from celebrity status to running for president"

  • Sabrina Siddiqui
5 min read
Former footballer Matt Light said Donald Trump was ‘not a guy that’s afraid to say it like it is and that’s what most of the people in this country feel we need’.
BEN JACOBSXX

Sporting ties put the ball in Trump’s court

A number of former professional athletes have endorsed US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

  • Ed Pilkington
2 min read
At the White House
BARACK OBAMA

What has Obama’s presidency really accomplished?

Barack Obama’s ascent to power had meaning, but now his interventions are too rare and too piecemeal to constitute a narrative, writes Gary Younge.

  • Gary Younge
6 min read
George W Bush with a human face?
BARACK OBAMA

New York Times endorses Obama for White House

The New York Times has endorsed President Barack Obama on Saturday as he seeks a second term in the White House on November 6.

  • Sapa Afp
2 min read
GEORGE W BUSH

W and I

Oliver Burkeman speaks to Oliver Stone about his new movie, W about US president George W Bush.

  • Oliver Burkeman
8 min read