Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
This article appeared on RFI English South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is resisting calls to declare a state of emergency as the nation counts the cost of days of looting and violence. Former National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli is the latest high profile figure to call for a
For more than 24 hours I have watched scenes I did not believe possible. Thousands of people looting with impunity in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg. Police, under equip and outnumbered, have been reduced to spectators. President Cyril Ramaphosa is obliged to draft the military in to help try to contain
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 30 minute speech to South Africans was made with against the backdrop of the continued looting of a shopping mall in Durban. He says he speaks with an heavy heart having observed acts of violence rarely seen in the nation’s history. “There has been property vandalized and
Zuma sentenced to 15 months in jail for cotemtny pf court will hand himself to police at his home Nkandla In what is being hailed as one of the most significant legal decisions in South African history the Constitutional Court has jailed disgraced former President Jacob Zuma for 15 months
Full disclosure: I did a walk-in COVID vaccination. Waiting for the sms from the vaccine authority seems rather like standing in an orderly queue for a lifeboat on the Titanic. Admirable, but unwise. Completing the process at the DisChem headquarters in Midrand took five hours. Sure it was a Ben
Morocco’s latest piece of diplomatic vandalism has met with a swift and embarrassing repost from the Pan African Parliament. The mendacious Mediterranean kingdom sought to take advantage of the continental talkshop’s leadership paralysis. Using PAP official stationery, a certain Roger Nkodo attacks the European Parliament for criticizing Morocco’s cynical use
South Africa is ready to sign a memorandum of understanding with Finland on access to water and sanitation as a basic human right, says Dr Trevor Blazer of the Department of Water and Sanitation. Finland’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Dr Jaana Husu-Kallio expresses the hope that Water Affairs
President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Brahim Ghali has left Spain after six-weeks of treatment for COVID. He is in Algiers tonight and will return to his country much of which has been illegally occupied by Morocco since 1975. Algeria supports the SADR and provides shelter in refugee camps
“This really is a lightning visit,” says Wandile Mabaso on the lawn of the Boer War hospital that is today the French Ambassador’s residence in Pretoria. “We came here to cook breakfast for him,” says the man now back home in South Africa after two years at a two-Michelin-star Paris
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