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By the end of the 1930s petitioning had clearly failed and the organisation practically ceased to exist. The presidency of J. T. Gumede (1927–30)... →
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Delivering the budget speech last Wednesday, Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana said South Africa had reached a “turning point” in its finances.... →
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The America First Global Health Strategy is being questioned as exploitative. The United States (US) has run into some problems with its America... →
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South Africa’s land and mining crisis is political and structural, and experts at the 2026 Mining Indaba agree that reform requires collective,... →
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Action counts, not declarations
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An offhand remark caught my attention in the last stages of the Brazilian presidency of COP30. Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, the lead... →
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The South African government makes a great deal of the fact that it supports women’s empowerment in agriculture. But does it? →
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In South Africa today, there is a quiet human condition spreading through our relationships, communities, and conversations. It is not a virus with... →
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Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of... →
