READERS’ QUESTIONS Motives, death tolls and the SA impact — Your questions on the Iran war answered 5 min 0 By Peter Fabricius and Victoria O'Regan
DASHED AMERICAN DREAM Viljoen scandal — Peet in notorious US ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, Melany in another ICE centre 5 min 0 By Caryn Dolley
DASHED AMERICAN DREAM The Viljoens — from ‘Real Housewives fame’ in SA to US ‘shoplifting’ bubbly 6 min 6 By Caryn Dolley
Redi Tlhabi Tips for Bozell: A geopolitical survival guide from Mzansi for US ambassador to SA 4 min 10 12 March 2026
FOREIGN AFFAIRS New spat brews with US after SA rebukes Ambassador Bozell for ‘undiplomatic remarks’ 7 min 25 By Victoria O'Regan
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
SPY VS SPY SA’s links to US case against fighter pilot held for ‘helping Chinese military’ 5 min 0 By Caryn Dolley
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2025 The dying empire and its teetering Death Star — and why whoever comes after Trump will be worse 3 min 3 By Richard Poplak
Cyril Ramaphosa Thank you for coming together as South Africans to host a successful G20 9 min 0 30 November 2025
COPS AND CONSPIRACIES ANALYSIS CIA spies, Zuma-like ties and inevitable lies — SA’s conspiracy claims landslide 7 min 3 By Caryn Dolley
Richard Fontaine and Gibbs McKinley How the US and South Africa could use the G20 to plot a path forward 3 min 1 21 November 2025
ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS How shadowy Russian and US groups are pouring billions into the systematic destruction of women’s rights globally 9 min 12 By Rebecca Davis
TRADING POST Agoa has officially lapsed but US mulls one-year extension 4 min 1 By Victoria O’Regan and Peter Fabricius
GROUNDUP Palestine’s Barghouti and UK’s Corbyn condemn Trump’s plan for Gaza 3 min 4 By Matthew Hirsch for GroundUp
TARIFF TRAUMA Deputy President Mashatile urges amicable trade agreement with the US to protect SA jobs 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
TARIFF TRAUMA Eastern Cape on its knees, Numsa warns government of jobs ‘catastrophe’ 6 min 20 By Estelle Ellis
GEOPOLITICS ANALYSIS The Trump administration’s rebellion against history and common sense 8 min 2 By J Brooks Spector
US REFLECTION The Fourth of July and the sad promise of a riotous 250th American birthday party in 2026 8 min 0 By J Brooks Spector
