Peter Swanepoel
Peter Swanepoel is a historian and writer affiliated with the University of Johannesburg’s History Department, where he works under the supervision of Professor Thembisa Waetjen. His research focuses on the politics and institutional cultures of South African cycling under apartheid. He is the co-author of The Daisy Spy Ring: How South African Intelligence Agents Infiltrated and Disrupted the SA Communist Party (Naledi, 2025) and is currently completing doctoral research with funding from the National Research Foundation. He also writes on politics, history, and society, with an emphasis on institutional analysis, historical context, and moral clarity.
Articles By This Author
The Iran factor: what’s really holding Gaza’s ceasefire together
The peace deal holding Gaza together right now works for a reason most people don’t understand: Arab states fear Iran more than they care about
The familiar choices of a failing democracy: Cuomo vs Mamdani
As New York approaches its 2025 mayoral election, two very different candidates reveal the same underlying problem – a political system that keeps producing inadequate
Is war always a failure of humanity?
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb says yes. History says no. Stubb’s declaration in his recent UN speech – “War is always a failure of humanity” –