JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE GERMANS RE-ELECTED ANGELA MERKEL LAST Sunday, for the third term. Her sweeping victory highlights her astounding popularity among the Germans. And perhaps it’s reasonable, the German economy remains very…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IT’S the United Nations’ (UN) Annual General Assembly this upcoming week. They say New York gets annoyingly busy on this occasion. Fareed Zakaria of Cable News Network (CNN)…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE 104 YEAR OLD McCORD HOSPITAL, in KZN, will shut down this week. Why are they shutting down? No enough funding from the government. On the other side of…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
WHENEVER ONE MAKES A STATEMENT, I think it’s very important that we take an appropriate way of disputing it. I recently echoed my thoughts on Twitter, on how our governments…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FEW WEEKS AGO I SAID MY next blog post will be about communism, whether the system would work for us today. But I’ve had a very bad week, to an extent…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN 2000, THE ECONOMIST RELEASED THE COVER story about Africa, titled “The hopeless continent”. At that time Sierra Leone was embroiled in a civil war that left more than 50,000…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
I’M SO FORTUNATE I WAS BORN in 1988 – it’s a blessing. I’ve imagined many times how different my life would be had the opposite been true –…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE EXTRAORDINARY RISE OF CHINA WILL always remain one of the great stories of the late 20th and early 21stcentury. China’s rise to riches can largely be attributed to the…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
WHATEVER YOU AND I THINK, the future of Syria is now predictable – al-Assad will fall. Since the anti-Assad protests began early last year, I think it’s fair…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FOREIGN POLICY IS CRUCIAL FOR any government aiming to strengthen its relations with the rest of the world. Since World II the growing importance of foreign policy has…