An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation’s victims, in the Chechen Republic’s capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev/AP] Sun 23 February 2025: The tragic history of trauma and repression in Chechnya must be a warning for those who want to abandon the […]
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Sun 23 February 2025: Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal crime globally. According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, South Africa’s murder rate of 45 per 100,000 (2023/24) is the second highest for countries that publish crime data. The […]
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Sat 22 February 2025: If asked to identify major milestones that have shaped the Middle East over the past hundred years, they would most likely be the First World War (1914-1918); the 1948 Nakba in Palestine; the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990; and the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003 respectively. The […]
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White South Africans demonstrate in support of US President Donald Trump in front of the US embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on February 15, 2025 [Jerome Delay/AP] Sat 22 February 2025: As Trump offers to take in Afrikaner refugees, many say right-wing lobbyists have spread misinformation and fear. Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa – On a […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: Sudan’s women and girls have endured horrific sexual violence throughout this war. They deserve support and protection. Today, African heads of states are convening on the margins of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa to discuss Sudan’s devastating conflict and come up with strategies to try and put the country […]
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Sat 15 February 2025: Last time you scrolled the “For You” page on TikTok, did you get a video about current events? Politics? Breaking news? If you’re one of the 63% of teens or 33% of adults in the U.S. who uses TikTok, you probably have. But where did it come from? Who created it? And should you believe […]
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Disgruntled white South Africans protest against farm murders they blame on the government. Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images Fri 14 February 2025: American president Donald Trump has issued an executive order to withdraw aid from South Africa. He was reacting to what he has called the South African government’s plan to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The explanation is rather simple: the state has not been creating good jobs for years. It has been in the news lately that Gujarati migrants make up a huge portion of those who have been deported by the Trump administration to India. In fact, it is understood that Gujaratis are overrepresented […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The irony should not be lost here. For most of the world, this so-called Deep State has been the American establishment which has often been involved in an agenda to undermine foreign governments. During the US Presidential election campaign, one of Donald Trump’s themes was the need to root out the […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: On a humid January day last year, a group of women activists gathered outside the UAE’s sprawling embassy in Pretoria’s upscale Waterkloof neighborhood. Among them were pensioners, homemakers, doctors, and journalists, standing resolute with large posters condemning the UAE’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. As they chanted in unison, […]
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