Ivo Vegter

Putin and his apologists have raised a number of claims to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Only one motive is true; the others are smokescreens,

The invasion of Ukraine appears to have been a grave miscalculation on the part of Russian president Vladimir Putin. It would be surprising if his

An eco-lobbyist argues that South Africa should prohibit efforts to discover and exploit its oil and gas resources, on the grounds that doing so could

The world’s richest man has a sideline selling solar panels. He says they produce more power than a nuclear power station for the same land

By Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘buy local’ logic, the sanctions against apartheid South Africa must have been good for the economy. To satisfy special interests in the

President Cyril Ramaphosa knows the art of saying what people want to hear. In Thursday’s SONA, he openly contradicted himself to please opposing interests. It

The level of surprise at the insidious, state-capture-enabling nature of the ANC’s cadre deployment policy, surprises me. It was entirely predictable, 25 years ago. In

Amnesty International has produced a travesty of a report, rehashing old antisemitic tropes and falsely denouncing Israel as an apartheid state. It says a lot

It is awkward to defend a politician who is likely corrupt as all get-out, and has been branded a liar by Judge Zondo, but when