The United Nations has once again exposed its deeply flawed institutional architecture, electing 15 new members to its 47-nation Human Rights Council through an uncontested process that critics have blasted as a charade. Because regional blocs coordinated behind closed doors to put forward exactly the same number of candidates as available seats, the global body…
South Africa’s economy would have employed 500,000 more people if it had maintained its pre-2008 economic growth rate through to the present day. This means that had the administrations of President Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa maintained the economy’s momentum, half a million more South Africans would have jobs. Apart from the job creation,…
President Trump signed an executive order Friday evening to waive sanctions against Russia set to take effect soon under a recently signed legislative package. The president officially signed the sanctions package into law last month, which was posthumously dedicated to the late Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.). The legislation sought to put pressure on the Kremlin…
DA strategist Ryan Coetzee has launched an attack on the United States’ top leaders, which has, in turn, sparked a backlash from respected political commentators. The issue started after Coetzee criticised a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio from Pnyx Hill near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. In his speech, Rubio praised Western…
Cape Town’s city centre has become the latest stage for scenes familiar from European capitals: a dense throng of asylum seekers and supporters filling the streets, many waving Palestinian flags, amid ongoing national tension over the reopening of the asylum system following a Constitutional Court ruling. The protest, captured in widely shared footage, comes as…
President Donald Trump said yesterday that Ukraine and Russia reached an energy ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the alleged agreement but said he had not received any details. The announcement comes a day after Trump suggested Ukraine hold an election to oust Zelenskyy, attributing high diesel prices to his continued strikes on Russian oil…
In terms of affordability and cost-of-living standards, a Deutsche Bank report found significant price changes over the last decade, with globalisation failing to achieve price equalisation. This is due to various factors, including taxes, regulations, currency fluctuations, and inflation. Deutsche Bank Research Institute senior financial researchers and macroeconomists Adrian Cox and Jim Reid said that…
According to a report published earlier this year, Cape Town is one of the cheapest cities in the world for beer and cigarettes, with a basket costing around R230, including five 500 ml beers and two packs of cigarettes. This is according to the Deutsche Bank’s Mapping the World’s Prices report for 2026, which analyses…
The election of of AfD politician Tobias Rauch as President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has caused a stir. For the first time, the 35-year-old is a politician from the party classified by some as right-wing extremist in the federal state heads a parliament. According to a media report, BMW no longer intends to…
The Trump administration suspended Microsoft and Adobe, alongside several major IT outsourcing firms, from the Permanent Labor Certification Program (PERM)—a key federal program used to sponsor H-1B visa holders for permanent residency green cards. https://x.com/seanhannity/status/2108330939327697313/video/1 Key Details The Action: Vice President JD Vance announced that Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini are…
