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I’ve thrown the bones, read the tea leaves, and gazed into my crystal ball to see what we can expect in 2026. Here are my predictions, and some important anniversaries in the next year. ...
The South African government is basking in the glory of what it considers a successful G20 Summit in Johannesburg, having managed to forge consensus in a fractured world. This was despite the shenanigans of...
With a fragile Gaza ceasefire just about holding after two years of brutal war, the South African government still claims it has a positive role to...
If anyone thinks relations between Pretoria and Washington are at rock bottom, there may be new depths to plumb yet. On top of the withdrawal of...
He calls himself a Muslim Zionist, and has gone from being an Israel hater to supporting the Jewish state as a matter of principle and integrity,...
As relations between Pretoria and Washington continue to sour, South Africa’s ties to Iran are coming under increasing scrutiny. And the heat is being turned up...
Jewish Agency head, Israeli Major General (reserves) Doron Almog, decided at the last minute not to fly to Johannesburg from Israel to attend Limmud last week...
Afrika Tikkun, a non-profit organisation that has fed and educated millions of South Africans since 1994, is being targeted in what appears to be a concerted...
Emotive images of malnourished, starving Gazan children – many faked, some all too real – have dominated news coverage. Cynically exploited for propaganda by Hamas, it...
It didn’t take long for South African Jews to be made scapegoats. The progress of the United States (US)-South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Bill of 2025...
The South African government’s warm relations with Iran risks costing the country thousands of jobs, exacerbating already fraught relations with Washington, and exposing the country to...
Despite progress made in deepening relations between Israel and African countries, the war in Gaza has put these efforts on the back burner. Not enough academic...
The 33-year-old Ugandan born Zohran Mamdani, who went to school in Cape Town, clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination for New York City mayoral elections in a...
While water resources can cause conflict, they can also foster collaboration and build trust. That was the message delivered by water experts from Israel, Jordan, the...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged the African National Congress (ANC), its partner in the Government of National Unity (GNU), on its right to dictate international...
Joel Pollak isn’t sorry that he’s cost South Africa’s ambassador to the United States (US) his job. And Tony Leon, former Democratic Alliance leader and former...
As the leadership of the Western world appears to be moving right with electoral gains for right-wing parties in Europe and beyond, it’s as much of...
Free State University’s Professor Hussein Solomon was selected to a prestigious list of the world’s top 100 terrorism experts (at number 93) by ScholarGPS, a body...
What started with a social media post by United States (US) President Donald Trump – apparently prompted by the passage of South Africa’s Expropriation Act –...
In his first week back in the White House, President Donald Trump lost no time shaking up United States (US) policies on the Middle East. Most...
South African government departments, political parties, and parliament have heaped blame on Israel in highly loaded, emotive language, and barely mention Hamas in their response to...
Global pressure on Israel for its conduct of the war on Hamas after 7 October is mounting. Ireland has become the latest country to join South...
On 20 January, Donald Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as United States (US) president. The world had one dose of this mercurial, capricious,...
The year 2025 will be big for South Africa. What the government of national unity says and does will be under intense international scrutiny. The country...
All eyes will be on South Africa in 2025 as it hosts the Group of 20 (G20) leaders of the world’s most significant economies next November....
Politicians and the media make assumptions about what South Africans think about foreign policy. Whether it’s conflict in the Middle East; relations with the West and...
Donald Trump’s resounding shellacking of Kamala Harris at the polls on 5 November took many by surprise, including me. Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to...
Many admire the humanitarian work that the Gift of the Givers Foundation performs in the world’s disaster areas, providing relief from floods, earthquakes, and wars. It...
As the world enters its second year since the murderous Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, the oldest hatred is alive and well in...
“No-one could imagine a 7 October. The magnitude of what happened that day was entirely new and unprecedented. We didn’t have the resources. We listened to...
It’s never easy to grieve for one’s late parents. Israeli-born architect Amos Goldreich, the son of South African struggle hero Arthur Goldreich and Israeli designer Tamar...
There’s a novel change in seating arrangements for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79), which began on 10 September in New...
South African-born Aviva Siegel is fighting with every fibre of her being to get her beloved husband, Keith, aged 65, released with the other 100 hostages...
With Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza dragging on relentlessly and no deal to free the hostages captured on 7 October within grasp, a kernel of...
Despite the hostility shown towards Israel and Jews from the political left in the United States, about 70% of American Jews are still likely to support...
Anti-Israel sentiments on billboards alongside Gauteng’s roads have abounded since the Hamas terror attack of 7 October, but now the public has recourse against anonymous adverts...
As the Israel-Hamas war grinds on relentlessly and a deal remains elusive, the United States (US) isn’t the only sheriff in town. In recent months, Beijing...
In the Middle East’s eye-for-an-eye conflict, Israel is bracing itself for a threatened military response from Iran. This follows the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh...
There’s been an embarrassing and alarming display of insubordination and mixed messages from the country’s newly minted government of national unity (GNU), and Israel is at...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog accused the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague this week of mixing politics with law, rejecting what he called the...
