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It centred darkly that “foreign-aligned Zionist lobbying threatens South Africa’s sovereignty” and how South Africans “did not defeat apartheid only to become vulnerable to new forms of pressure dressed up as lobbying, philanthropy, diplomacy, religion, or ‘shared values’”. In particular, he launched an attack on the South African Israel Public Affairs Committee (SAIPAC), which he…

In the absence of effective solutions to South Africa’s escalating economic and social crises, dangerous delusions and destructive fantasies are flourishing. Having returned to executive power, US President Donald Trump recently provided renewed vitality to the paranoia of right-wing populists while validating the perverse anxieties of white nationalists. On February 3, Trump threatened to freeze…

I remember February 22, 2019, with vivid clarity—the day the Hirak anti-government movement erupted in Algeria. There was a collective intuition among Algerians that something was brewing. It was a Friday, a day that naturally lends itself to protest across North Africa as people get together to carry out weekly prayers. More importantly, in the…