South Africa has a strained relationship with the International Criminal Court. Although nominally a member, it is rightly sceptical of the institution. On 17 March

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In certain ways all banking crises are the same. There is a run on the bank as depositors rush to withdraw their cash and big

The belief that rich people, and rich countries, require poor people, and poor countries, in order to sustain their wealth on the back of cheap

The Economic Freedom Fighters’ ‘national shutdown’ last week brought out modest numbers of people, intimidated some businesses into closing and gave the EFF an outsized

The only explanation I can think of for the hysterical nonsense in the latest report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is

On 28 February the government issued ‘Disaster Management Regulations pertaining to the impact of Severe Electricity Supply Constraints’. Very few believed that the State of

Some people may think that the above headline is sensationalist but there is no other way to explain President Cyril Ramaphosa’s celebration and bragging about

The religious right in the US is rapidly becoming the American Taliban. South Africa’s alt-right is adopting some of its most hateful memes. There’s an

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 22nd March 1939 – Germany takes Memel from Lithuania   The 20th