By Ofentse Donald Davhie The mini budget keeps SA diplomacy afloat, but structural rot still festers 3 min 0 22 October 2026
ARSON ATTACK Tibet’s exile government asks Pretoria for protection, SA says leave it to SAPS 5 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
By Ofentse Donald Davhie SA’s foreign service is becoming a retreat for failed ministers 3 min 1 8 October 2026
Sooklal off the hook SA’s high commissioner to India cleared over Gupta, Zuma meeting 5 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
DIPLOMATIC BUNGLE New protocol for former presidents: Dirco aims to avoid Zuma-Gupta repeat 5 min 1 By Peter Fabricius
FOREIGN RELATIONS Nigeria accuses SA of ‘apartheid-style’ policing over disputed reports of Nigerian deaths in custody 7 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS No golf, but Roelf Meyer, SA’s new ambassador to US, will walk the course 6 min 3 By Victoria O’Regan and Peter Fabricius
EXPLAINER Don’t hold your breath — ICJ decision on SA’s genocide case may take years 5 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS US intervenes to defend Israel in SA's genocide case at the ICJ 7 min 4 By Victoria O’Regan
FOREIGN AFFAIRS New spat brews with US after SA rebukes Ambassador Bozell for ‘undiplomatic remarks’ 7 min 25 By Victoria O’Regan
By Ali Ridha Khan SA applying legal scrutiny to Iran but not the strikes that started the war 4 min 0 8 March 2026
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS South Africans urged to use ‘limited’ flights to flee Middle East conflict 6 min 1 By Victoria O'Regan and Peter Fabricius
THE INTERVIEW ‘It’s about law, not politics’ — SA’s Dirco boss on US-Israeli strikes and Iran’s retaliation 10 min 27 By Victoria O’Regan
EXPLAINER How the US-Israeli attacks on Iran affect SA travellers to and from Middle East 5 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
FOREIGN AFFAIRS SA expels Israeli chargé d’affaires from Pretoria for ‘gross abuse of diplomatic privilege’ 3 min 9 By Victoria O’Regan
By Wandile Sihlobo BRICS members are moving along on trade matters, leaving SA behind 3 min 1 25 January 2026
ALL AT SEA SANDF apparently defied presidential orders to remove Iran from a joint naval exercise 6 min 3 By Peter Fabricius
FOREIGN POLICY SA political parties divided on US military action in Venezuela 9 min 4 By Victoria O’Regan
GROUP OF 20 SA formally asks fellow G20 members to object to its exclusion by the US 2 min 6 By Peter Fabricius
FOREIGN AFFAIRS SA likely to support UN General Assembly resolution demanding Russia return abducted Ukrainian children 5 min 4 By Peter Fabricius
