THE INTERVIEW The Nobel peace prize has come home, says SA’s latest laureate, Navi Pillay 9 min 1 By Peter Fabricius
CLICK BAIT ‘We were fodder’ — how a Botswana architect was duped into fighting for Russia 4 min 0 By Terry Lester, Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
POLAR POLITICS China’s Antarctic marine protected area has a Soviet name, with more Russian fingerprints emerging 10 min 0 By Tiara Walters
POLAR POLITICS Exclusive: China proposes its own Antarctic marine protected area – in a Soviet-named sea 6 min 1 By Tiara Walters
By Olexander Scherba The war in Ukraine and how the time of Gandhi became the time of Putin 3 min 1 25 August 2026
CONTRACTS OF DEATH OP-ED How Africans were lured to fight for Russia and sent to Ukraine’s deadliest fronts 11 min 0 By Greg Mills
ANALYSIS We do the maths on Mantashe’s new plan to secure South Africa’s fuel 4 min 2 By Lindsey Schutters
POLAR POLITICS Hiroshima to Hazyview diplomacy cracks — Antarctic scientist’s detention exposes DA’s Russia problem 8 min 2 By Tiara Walters
POLAR POLITICS Drunk Bond villain, no passport? How Russia’s ghost ship hid its Antarctic oil hunt 11 min 0 By Tiara Walters
POLAR POLITICS Ireland vs the Ice Curtain — Dublin eyes decision-making powers in Antarctica 7 min 1 By Tiara Walters
By Olexander Scherba Chornobyl’s legacy of state disregard for human life echoes in Russia’s war in Ukraine 3 min 0 4 May 2026
MURKY WATERS Antarctica case tightens: scientist still held as ‘treason’ charges shift from oil to krill 7 min 1 By Tiara Walters
PLANET CAPTURE ANALYSIS Iranian roulette — war in the time of portfolio diversification 9 min 10 By Richard Poplak
ANALYSIS Russia’s failed influence campaign casts pall over Mbalula’s presidential run 5 min 8 By Stephen Grootes
POLAR POLITICS US Senate chair: Russia ‘violating treaty’ in Antarctic oil, gas hunt via Cape Town 8 min 0 By Tiara Walters
By Olexander Scherba Putin’s crusade of insanity in Ukraine is a disaster and Russia is in denial 5 min 1 24 February 2026
HOMEWARD BOUND South Africans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine are on their way home 6 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
By Ronnie Apteker Letter from Kyiv: Exhausted but unbroken after four years of full-scale war 7 min 2 11 February 2026
