The year 2024 has been marked by sweeping political, social, and environmental shifts that will undoubtedly shape the global trajectory for years to come.
Today the entire Middle East region is worse off than it was three years ago and while Biden may have spoken out against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, as he mentioned in his UNGA speech, he fails to speak out against apartheid in Israel today, the writer says
Often, institutions, such as our banks and Sars, would send us reminders about how we should be careful about being scammed.
Meeting under the theme: ‘Investing in a Sustainable Future’, the annual meeting, which comprises several events, will seek to ensure that it is continuing its founding mandate.
The rise of the right and their riots are not unique to England. Since the global economic recession, countries across the world have seen the rise of the right, particularly the working class right.
While the BRICS Plus countries such as Russia, China, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and South Africa are appealing for ceasefire, making efforts of reconciliation and supporting talks while insisting on the international rule of law, the West continues to back the barbarism of Bibi, the writer says.
A month ago, Republican staffers were suggesting that foreign policy will have no bearing on the upcoming US presidential campaign. This is now quickly changing.
As the international community awaits on tenterhooks the outcome of the interim ruling of the ICJ, many have marvelled at this magnificent feat accomplished by South Africa in the international arena.
Furthermore, the conference highlighted that building a community with a shared future for humankind is a core characteristic of the Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy
Already two years ago, in April 2021, UN human rights experts deplored Japan’s decision to release the contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, stating that such “discharge could impact millions of lives and livelihoods in the Pacific region”.
If the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting is anything to go by, South Africa will not be missing much.
Addressing the recent Lanting Forum on Chinese Modernisation and the World, Chinese state councillor and foreign affairs minister Qin Gang explained that though Chinese modernization is being realised after a 100-year-long quest for development, this modernisation was taking place primarily on two fronts.
The recent issuing of a warrant of arrest for Russian president, Vladimir Putin, must remind us, as Africans, of the tragedies of Côte D’Ivoire.
Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Naledi Pandor has suggested that the war should end in an similar way to how apartheid ended.
In the week that our country celebrated Armed Forces Day, it was maybe appropriate that two of our BRICS allies, Russia and China, engaged in joint navy drills with us off the east coast of South Africa.
Yet, since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, reports suggest that there has been an uptick in the production of coal in the US.
The contradictions of development, as experienced by regions such as Bali, was highlighted at the recent G20 Summit and especially by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
China remains as politically stable as it was seventy-three years ago, and its economy is strengthening by the day.
Only the residents of Cape Town who have been living under a rock will deny that the current crisis at UCT speaks to the very nature of the university and that it is symptomatic of a cancer that has crippled UCT for years.
Not many people realise just how diverse China really is.
Part of this recent history of the African continent, led by the AU, has been the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), established in 2000
Every other state in the world, except the US, understands a visit to Taiwan as a denial of the One China policy, UN recognition of the People’s Republic of China and therefore an onslaught against China’s sovereignty
Johnson leaves after the catastrophic Brexit referendum, under David Cameron, and the term of the lame-duck prime minister, Theresa May
Comrade Buyile, like his predecessor the late Wanga Sigila, was also an internationalist through and through
Leadership provided by Chinese President Xi Jinping this past week at the XIV BRICS summit has been crucial and comes at a critical time
