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As geopolitical pressure exposes the fragility of global energy supply chains, the case for strengthening domestic energy security by developing South Africa’s own offshore energy resources to secure domestic supply has sharpened considerably. South Africa sits on one of the continent’s most promising, underexplored offshore basins. The country’s offshore oil and gas sector recognises the…
The tradition of young men leaving their homes to go to initiation schools has not only been a source of pride for families and loved ones but has also brought misery and the loss of lives to some families across our country. There is certainly concern as the winter initiation season kicks off, with traditional…
From the outset, the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA) was designed to bring together leaders, experts and partners to advance Africa’s nuclear energy goals. The strong participation at the summit this year reflects a growing consensus that the future of our economies depends on how quickly we solve the energy challenge. Nuclear energy…
The violence against foreign Africans has undermined and will continue to undermine the African National Congress’s foreign policy of positioning South Africa as a so-called moral force. It will undermine South Africa’s influence in Africa as well as in continental and global institutions. It is likely to result in African countries not supporting South Africa…
Last week, my fiancée was denied a visa to the US under the pretext that she is a “threat to the national interests of the United States of America”. She is not a terrorist. She is not a fraudster, a larcenist or a human trafficker. She is not violent and carries no hate in her…
With the Trump administration planning to expand its assistance to Afrikaners, raising the limit to 17 500 from 7 500 and declaring an “emergency refugee situation”, the term “refugee” is being used once again. There is a difference between leaving and fleeing. The media should know that. The increasing numbers of white South Africans relocating…
In a report published in December 2021 by Xenowatch, a project at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, xenophobic violence was defined as acts explicitly targeting foreign nationals or “outsiders” because they are perceived as strangers. It is categorised as a hate crime with the primary motive of…
At a recent press briefing, His Excellency Mansour Shakib Mehr, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of South Africa, pushed back against one of the West’s favourite images of Iran: a country supposedly weakened to the point of hunger, collapse and social exhaustion. Western media still reports on Iran’s imagined vulnerabilities…
Africa Day should not be observed merely as a ritual of speeches and nostalgia. It should be approached as a test. Commemorating the founding of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa on 25 May 1963, and the political imagination that would later find institutional expression in the African Union, it compels a question…
A thread on X went viral this week. A guy named Thendo Muloiwa shared that he had spent two years renting a flat in Victory Park, Johannesburg, for R12 000 a month. His landlord had listed the unit for sale at R1.4 million. Thendo did the math (out loud, for all of X to see)….