Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
He could have stopped the expulsion process dead in its tracks. All Novak Djokovic had to do was stop by a medical facility and get a COVID vaccination. He could have done this while being kept in a migrant detention facility at the start of his ill-fated latest visit to
“African Viking,”by Pierre Dietrichsen. Dietrichsen is one of that dwindling band of diplomats who represented both the apartheid regime and South Africa’s new democracy led by President Nelson Mandela. His memoir contains gems of a unique history that includes the complex and often exasperating transition between the two. Dietrichsen writes
South Africa’s National Institute For Communicable Diseases has confirmed that a new possibly vaccine-resistant COVID strain with 32 mutations has been detected. Virologists are calling it the most evolved COVID strain ever, and fear it could be worse that the Delta strain. A COVID expert says what has been dubbed
The nation’s flags fall to half staff today as South Africa begins a four-day official mourning period for its last white leader F.W. de Klerk. President Cyril Ramaphosa calls this a mark of respect for a predecessor. A State memorial service for de Klerk will be held a date to
In mid October, I sat down and explained why I would not be at the Climate Change summit in Glasgow. Bottom line: I did not want to lie to my readers. And puffing up their expectations for COP 26 would be doing exactly that. A few paragraphs in, I was
The European Union has legally bloodied Morocco’s nose by annulling the North African Kingdom’s trade deals involving the Western Sahara it has illegally occupied since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations. Significantly the EU’s top court acknowledges that the government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is the
A commitment by coal-addicted South Africa to transform to more sustainable energy generation will have a major impact on the Climate Summit starting in Glasgow at the end of next month. The ripple effect of the world’s 13th largest carbon emitter making such an undertaking will likely drive countries like
There is something about a brave woman that leaves me grappling for words. Growing up in the Boys Own generation, I was conditioned to respect and emulate courageous men. The women came later as I learned about women fighting and dying against the Nazis. And even later as we learned
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
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