The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 29 December – Sunday 5 January: On Sunday, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Russia had tried to “hush up” the unintentional shooting down of an Azerbaijani passenger…
‘An Expert on Africa’
Duncan Clarke When asked to join the Spiegel Tent ‘Discourse on Africa’ in August 2012 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, to speak about my book, Africa’s Future: Darkness to…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 15 December – Sunday 22 December: On Sunday, Israel’s government approved an $11 million plan to double the population of Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights to…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 18 August – Sunday 25 August: On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The biggest political shock of the decade came on Friday when Floyd Shivambu, deputy leader of the EFF since its inception and author of its 7…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 11 August – Sunday 18 August: On Sunday, two days after they began, Iran’s official news agency announced military drills held by the Revolutionary Guards Corps in…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, For me the biggest story of the week was the forced return to SA of Ace Magashule’s one-time PA when Ace was wielding power in the…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 4 August – Sunday 11 August On Sunday, Jordan’s foreign minister met Iran’s acting foreign minister in Tehran. Ayman Safadi is the first senior Jordanian official to…
Misrule Britannia
Hannes Wessels, Watching events unfold in England, as a dangerously polarised country edges ever closer, to conflict brings me no joy despite the fact I consider myself a victim of…
It’s Over For England
Simon Lincoln Reader, If you are one of these people still laboring under the pretense of English or British exceptionalism, Sunday’s newspapers will have shocked you. There, you’d have found…