Even as the world observed the Nelson Mandela Day on Sunday, South Africa had not yet recovered from the unrest and large-scale violence which engulfed the country in the past few days. The arson and looting broke out amid...
by Patrick Bond
Before the August 22-24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics – and struck fear into many Western elites’ hearts and minds – at least five factors had reduced the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South...
By Richard Pithouse / GlobetrotterXenophobia is a global crisis, but in South Africa, it takes a particularly violent form. The day-to-day accumulation of insult and harassment from within the state and society periodically mutates into open-street violence in which...
It began as a shudder through the scientific and public health establishments. A new variant of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 had been found, mutating in South African climes, potentially outwitting human responses to it. Vaccines such as Oxford-AstraZeneca’s would have...
By Hilary Lynd
South African discourse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continually references Soviet support for the exiled ANC. But the past is more complicated than official Russian and South African statements suggest.
he night before he commanded Russian troops to...
William Shoki
South African and Palestinian poets on the shared experiences of Apartheid and resistance.
or the people residing between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, this past weekend commemorated the 15th of May, 1948, when the state of Israel...
