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Support: The principles underlying South Africa’s liberation from oppressive apartheid rule are captured at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Norway continues to show solidarity  through development aid to those countries in need. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Struggles for freedom still relevant today

Shifting geopolitics is highlighting new and old arenas of conflict and violations of international law

US President Donald Trump’s land-for-peace formula feeds into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchism. Photo: Dominick Reuter/Reuters

Europe’s dilemma: Standing by Ukraine as Trump courts Putin

Russia’s demand for Ukraine to surrender the free parts of Donbas is ‘equivalent to the US having to give up Florida’

Nelson Mandela chose to negotiate with his enemy, the apartheid state, because he believed that emotions such as hate got in the way of strategy.

The Mandela legacy: Might ‘quiet diplomacy’ work in conflicts such as Ukraine and Russia?

South Africa’s commitment to a foreign policy of non-alignment and Cyril Ramaphosa’s experience with negotiations to end apartheid serve as an example

Africa’s countries must work together to build the continent’s strength on the global stage.

Alone, South Africa is a small guy but together Africa could have weight

Countries in Africa will continue to be pawns, and have to bow to the US, unless we work collectively to build our economic heft and better the lives of our people

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reaffirmed South Africa’s place in the G20, rejecting his United States counterpart Donald Trump’s claim that the country would be excluded from next year’s summit (X)

Editorial: Make diplomacy great again

No rational person should want to live in a world in which the president of a sovereign nation is compelled to prostrate themselves in front of another; or bring along their…

President Cyril Ramaphosa is jetting off for his meeting with US President Donald Trump. Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Could Ramaphosa make a refugee deal with Trump fly?

Our president, a skilled negotiator, can offer to broker a compromise between Israel and Palestine and take awkward asylum seekers off the US president’s hands

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump in 2019. Things have deteriorated since then.

Narcissist – the fallen angel

Making America Great Again is the personification of narcissistic censure to maintain dominance. We need to build solidarity and safety in the face of geno/ecocides, hate and…

EU announces 4.7 billion euro investment pact with South Africa

The deal was announced days after the United States withdrew support for the country’s just-energy transition

A nation cannot continuously live in fear; there comes a time when leaders, the people and the country to take a stand. Photo: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine’s sovereignty is non-negotiable

It is against human nature to be enslaved, oppressed or occupied by another nation

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attend a joint press conference on June 16, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo by Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

The arms dealer behind the African peace mission to Ukraine

A weapons manufacturer on a peace mission. What could possibly go wrong?

President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Washington DC this week on a mission few would envy: to rescue a bilateral relationship that has descended into open hostility.
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Ramaphosa’s Russia-Ukraine peace initiative to kick off in June

Envoys from six African states will shuttle between Kyiv and Moscow to try to secure a ceasefire and peace talks

Thus far, Ukraine has resisted Russia’s assault, thanks to Ukrainians’ valour and Western aid. But after nearly a year of fighting, there’s no end in sight. (Photo by Murat Saka/dia images via Getty Images)

10 conflicts to watch in 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves around the world. As the International Crisis Group shows, several other crises loom

RPIN, UKRAINE — MARCH 4, 2022: Civilians, mostly women and children rush to board any train car that still has any room on it, as the sounds of battle Ð gunfire and bombing Ð fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces draw closer to the city of Irpin, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Refugees: The fallout of all wars

In World War I, millions of people fled Germany and millions fled when Germany occupied their countries; in Ukraine, it’s estimated four million will flee; and around the world…

Ukraine: SA’s feeble response betrays its own history

Aggressive, as opposed to defensive, warfare is a violation of international law. It is this that was used to condemn the apartheid South African Defence Force’s incursions into…