Around mid-January 2019, the South African government hosted 2 high-profile gatherings about how to counter climate-related disasters. Both gatherings took place under the directives of the United Nations to implement Continue Reading →
Jair Bolsonaro defeated Fernando Haddad (candidate of the Workers Party) in Brazil’s runoff elections for the presidency, winning 55,2% of the votes. Even though about 30% of eligible voters abstained Continue Reading →
The African National Congress brought the Sol Plaatje Municipality to its knees as a result of factionalism, in-fighting and putting the party line before everything else. The trigger point was Continue Reading →
Tito Mboweni, ex-governor of the South African Reserve Bank, recently joined government’s economic bureaucracy after a few years in the corporate world to grow his private business interests. His return Continue Reading →
The South African state’s weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are illegal in terms of South African law; more specifically the National Conventional Arms Control Act Continue Reading →