IMAGINE an alternative future if you will. A future in which our country instead of wedding itself to BRICS maintained its focus on leading the African continent — the BRICS bloc is really nothing more than a proxy for China's controversial 'belt...
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Harber: Stop claiming you’re defending RT press freedom
MOVES are afoot by state-sponsored news channel Russia Today (RT) to set up a regional hub in South Africa. Despite our pacifist constitution expressly outlawing 'propaganda for war' under article 16, (2) (a) — limitations on press freedom when it comes to calumny and disinformation to pursue 'sp...
Putin is South Africa’s problem
FOR too long my own country South Africa has been trading off bloodshed — the 69 deaths at Sharpville, the apartheid-era massacres of Boipatong (45), and earlier loss of life at Bulhoek (163) and Leliesfontein (35) which occurred under the colonial authorities. As a consequence, of our hard-won t...
Serial litigator, Terry Crawford-Browne is at it again, this time in support of Putin
OVER the years, former gold-dealer and banker, Terry Crawford-Browne has proven to be somewhat of a jaded crusader against war, that is, an opponent of militarism whenever it suits him. Thus while he opposes Western arms deals under the rubric "Economists Allied For Arms Reduction" and especially...
Leftsplaining Ukraine: Why does EFF support the Far Right in Russia?
JULIUS MALEMA cynically used an event held to commemorate the 1960 Sharpville massacre to lend his support by implication, to the bombing of a Mariupol Theatre four days earlier, in which 400 persons including children were sheltering. He thus praised Putin's invasion of the Ukraine on a National...
Dear ‘Wokus Pokus’ Saffer Putin Supporter
Dear 'Wokus Pokus' Saffer Putin Supporter Yes, I mean you. One of the many pseudo lefties in South Africa who claim "Russia is surrounded by Nato" despite the country sharing a border with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. The average, misguided socialist wannabee stuck with what Nigel Gibson writi...