JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IT’S NATIONAL elections again. All political parties will make their case for votes to the electorate by Election Day. The political parties that have had an opportunity to…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PABLO ESCOBAR WAS A NOTORIOUS COLOMBIAN drug lord in the 70s, 80s till his death in 1993. Then, he was a king of cocaine trafficking. His cartels supplied…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PUTIN “WANTS TO RESTORE THE SOVIET EMPIRE”, says the United States Senator, John McCain, in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. McCain could be wrong, but my gut…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
MY dream is to become an international political economist who studies today’s engines of global economic growth –the emerging markets. This profession requires critical political and economic analysis,…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
WE ARE ALL COGNIZANT OF THE fact that racism remains one of the enormous challenges facing the world today. It is, though without much historical facts in backing, my…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THIS WEEK, JANET YELLEN WAS SWORN in as the new chairperson of the United States Federal Reserve (Fed). She’s the first woman to chair the institution since its establishment in…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT WHEN most people, if not all, head to the polls, policy is the last thing in their minds? Eight out of ten times,…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
MUCH HAPPENED AROUND THE WORLD LAST year. Edward Snowden stained America’s diplomatic reputation (at least to those the United States National Security Agency spied on); Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thetcher died;…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THIS WEEK I LEARNED THAT AT least 400 people have been killed in Central African Republic (CAR), where an interreligious conflict rages on. Most of the victims are those who cannot defend…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
CHINA DERMACATED AN AIR DEFENCE IDENTIFICATION zone at least a week ago. The zone includes Senkaku/Diaoyu islands for which the relationship between China and Japan has taken a…