Journalist, Editor and authoritative commentator on African Affairs. Radio talk-show host and prominent guest speaker.
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
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
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