Thu 13 March 2025: US President Donald Trump’s administration has abolished 83 percent of aid agency’s humanitarian programmes. Taipei, Taiwan – Until recently, Southeast Asia’s Mekong sub-region seemed to be on track to reach its goal of eliminating malaria by 2030. Named for the 4,900-kilometre (3,000-mile) river that runs from southwest China through Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, […]
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Thu 13 March 2025: The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound to happen with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, given his previous insistence that US allies do more to fatten their own armies rather than rely on the largesse of […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: The fourteenth anniversary of the Syrian revolution falls on 15 March. The butcher of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, feared the uprising of the Syrian people across the country against him and his tyrannical regime. The Russian intervention saved him, otherwise he would have been ousted years ago. He preferred for Syria to […]
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Tue 11 March 2025: Since taking office, US president Donald Trump has implemented policies that have been notably hostile towards China. They include trade restrictions. Most recently, a 20% tariff was added to all imports from China and new technological restrictions were imposed under the America First Investment Policy. This isn’t the first time US-China tensions have flared. […]
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Sun 09 March 2025: The State of South Africa’s Fathers 2024 report is published by the new Tataokhona project at Stellenbosch University. The project focuses on research and interventions related to fathers and fatherhood. This is the third edition of this report, and offers valuable insights into the evolving realities of fatherhood in South Africa. Co-authors Wessel van den […]
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Gift of the Givers teams provide hot meals to flood displaced victims in Soweto [ Dec 9, 2022 – File photo] Wed 05 March 2025: At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives. This is due to a combination of factors, including unemployment, poverty, inequality and food system […]
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Patrice Lumumba, center, first Prime Minister of independent Congo in 1960. The CIA celebrated his death Tue 04 March 2025: Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of southern Africa, she empathises with the continent’s people. Williams’ widely acknowledged new book, White Malice – The CIA and […]
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Mon 03 March 2025: In the politics surrounding Urdu, the primary focus is on the Muslim community with the objective of fostering polarisation. Besides indulging in other propaganda tactics, a favourite pastime of those who engage in divisive politics is to attack Muslims by targeting the Urdu language. Under this political stratagem, ‘Kathmulla’ is the latest term […]
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Mon 03 March 2025: South Africa is one of only 52 countries that guarantee access to water as a human right. “Access” from a human rights perspective means that water is physically accessible, clean and safe for consumption, and affordable. Section 27 of the country’s constitution stipulates that everyone has the right to access sufficient water. But South […]
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Sun 02 March 2025: During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, millions of Africans were captured to provide free labour in North and South America and the Caribbean for over four and a half centuries. The question of whether reparations should be paid to the continent of Africa for the trans-Atlantic slave trade is still being debated. It is unlikely […]
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