Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic channel in a rapidly shifting conflict
The old digital publishing argument was simple enough: produce strong reporting, build a loyal readership, and the business model will eventually settle around that value. In principle, the argument remains attractive. In practice, it has become harder to defend as a complete strategy. Audience attention now arrives in fragments, often via mobile devices, and rarely […]
On the same day Trump threatened Iran with power plants and bridges, Russia and China killed a UN resolution in its sleep. South Africa sat square in the wreckage of both.
SA’s first consignment of the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, lenacapavir — 37 920 doses — arrived last week at OR Tambo Airport via two shipments from Dublin. The batches reached the country six weeks later than expected. The delay of the shipment meant the health department couldn’t start its roll-out on April 1, as it had originally planned, and had to postpone it to mid to late May
It was at The World that he found himself standing alongside one of South Africa’s most towering figures in the press, Percy Qoboza. To serve as deputy to a legend requires a particular kind of strength — not the strength that competes but the strength that complements. Latakgomo had that strength in abundance
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They elevated form above the history of conquest. They treated settler possession as the legal present and African dispossession as historical background
As South Africa mourns Albert Mazibuko, his life reveals the deep intersections between music, memory, displacement, and the resilience of black cultural expression.
While Washington spent two years threatening Pretoria, Donald Trump built the conditions for his own undoing. At 35% approval and $4-a-gallon gas, the leverage is expiring.