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Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Amendment Bill No 3 (CAB3) is not reform but regression; it is the architecture of authoritarian permanence masquerading as progress. The bill is presented by Zanu-PF as a modernising reform, yet in truth it is a constitutional coup unfolding in slow motion. What is being advanced is not renewal but regression — a…
The movies tend to depict the post-apocalyptic world as a wasteland, with tumbleweed blowing across the cold, hard ground and people scrounging for scraps to survive. Think of the cult movie Mad Max, the original starring Mel Gibson or even the recently re-imagined one starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. In the post-apocalyptic world, all…
And Mauritius is threatening to sue the UK.
In a house once filled with 15 souls, only three of us remain: my mother, my five-month-old uncle and me. I set that sentence down as plainly as I can, because plainness is what it deserves. No flourish. No rhetorical preparation. One moment, there were 15 people who had names and histories and habits and…
Iranian media reported on 8 April that US-Israeli strikes hit the Iran Aluminium Company in Arak, the country’s largest aluminium producer, along with the Amirkabir petrochemical complex in Mahshahr. A strike on a plant of that scale is the ultimate act of terrorism. Aluminium fires generate dense aluminium oxide smoke and release a cocktail of…
South Africa’s future prosperity will not be determined by chance. It will be shaped by the quality of our leadership, the strength of our institutions and the belief we place in our ability to compete with the best in the world. Today, the Legatum Institute’s Global Prosperity Index provides one of the most comprehensive measures…
Joe Latakgomo, a giant of black journalism in South Africa and founding editor of Sowetan newspaper, who died recently, was one of those special big-picture journalists who not only saw journalism as uncovering the truth, holding power accountable but who were also active community-builders. The sort that were involved in strengthening community civic life, civic…
Brics and the wider multipolar shift have opened a new political field in world affairs. They have weakened the old monopoly through which Washington, London, Brussels and their allies dictated the terms of finance, diplomacy and legitimacy. South Africa has entered this field with confidence. Its officials speak of strategic diversification, sovereign options, South–South cooperation…
Reform progress is slow as independence for private partners remains limited.
Bab el-Mandeb emerges as new flashpoint after Hormuz disruption, threatening oil flows, supply chains and shipping costs worldwide.