BILLIONS IN A BOOT Fifa for sale: Gianni Infantino’s $4.2bn private investment gamble sparks global backlash 6 min 0 By Yanga Sibembe
DIPLOMACY DANCE Ambassador Roelf Meyer details plans for mending fractured SA-US relationship 9 min 6 By Peter Fabricius
FRESH WAVE OF LEVIES Trump administration to impose new global tariffs on 60 trading partners 2 min 0 By Reuters
By Natale Labia US-Iran war has strengthened Tehran while boxing Trump into a corner 4 min 1 21 July 2026
IDENTITY CHALLENGE American World Cup makeover leaves soccer facing a battle for its soul 6 min 2 By Reuters
WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST ‘Is the deal dead?’ Your questions on the Iran-US conflict answered 9 min 0 By J Brooks Spector
THE TRUMP TREKS How Trump’s ‘white preference’ saw 7,727 SA ‘refugees’ enter US while resident immigrants sidelined 7 min 2 By Caryn Dolley
By Natale Labia The game is rigged— how Trump’s influence corrodes the soccer pitch and financial markets 5 min 2 7 July 2026
ANALYSIS Infantino, Fifa and Trump have dealt a mammoth blow to soccer’s integrity 6 min 4 By Yanga Sibembe
REFLECTIONS ON INDEPENDENCE A fractured US celebrates its semiquincentennial, with a terrifying outlook 250 years hence 8 min 0 By J Brooks Spector
SEEING RED Trump intervention sparks World Cup storm as Fifa clears Balogun to face Belgium 4 min 2 By Reuters
By John Stremlau Democracies and autocracies, and how they play into US-South African relations 3 min 0 1 July 2026
GREEN WATER BLUEPRINT Zille-style stunts — how Democrats can capitalise on Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fiasco 5 min 0 By J Brooks Spector
By Chris Heymans Host nation discomfort: a World Cup against the spirit of the game 4 min 2 19 June 2026
