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What Musk and Trump describe is not the South Africa I know and love | Opinions
As a white South African man now living in the United States, I am acutely aware of the oversized role…
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What the assault on Columbia University is really about | Opinions
The Trump administration’s war on campus dissent has reached a new, disturbing milestone. On March 8, Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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To avoid another conflict in the Horn of Africa, now is the time to act | Opinions
The Horn of Africa is a turbulent region whose history and contemporary realities are intertwined with those of the Middle…
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Trump versus the Gulf of Mexico | Opinions
This month during a rambling news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate, United States President-elect Donald Trump announced his latest vision…
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Southern Africa’s liberation movements have lost their political mojo | Opinions
On December 3, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) announced that Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation…
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No, President Yoon’s attempted coup was not a desperate act of nostalgia | Opinions
As always, the conventional wisdom is wrong. In the aftermath of the jarring events that rattled South Korea earlier this…
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How the world keeps failing eastern DRC | Opinions
On August 10, at least 18 were killed near the city of Beni, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the…
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International law is key to the peaceful resolution of the Sudan crisis | Opinions
I drew attention in a previous article to the inadequacy of the international community’s response so far to the war…
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Gaza’s other death toll | Opinions
Almost 10 months since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the official death toll has now exceeded 40,000.…
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After Hasina: Cautious optimism for Bangladesh’s future | Opinions
By all quantifiable measures, Bangladesh’s now deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the most entrenched, dominant and brutal dictator the…
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