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Phillip van Niekerk

Phillip van Niekerk is managing partner of Calabar Consulting, a political risk consulting firm.

Latest Work

Phillip van Niekerk

26 August 2024

Letter from DC — Kamala Harris is spoiling for a fight, and she’s coming for Trump

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

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As Kamala the Happy Warrior surges past Trump, things are about to get nasty

LETTER FROM THE US ELECTION TRAIL

19 August 2024

As Kamala the Happy Warrior surges past Trump, things are about to get nasty

Phillip van Niekerk

7 min

50

Kamala vs very, very old Trump – with Biden gone, it is now a real race

22 July 2024

Kamala vs very, very old Trump – with Biden gone, it is now a real race

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

173

Phillip van Niekerk

4 July 2024

And now, the end is near — America's dark days and Joe Biden’s unravelling campaign

Phillip van Niekerk

6 min

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Phillip van Niekerk

27 May 2024

Anglo American’s closure of the Rand Daily Mail — almost 40 years later, it still hurts

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

1

African continent braces for a more dangerous world

AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED

23 October 2023

African continent braces for a more dangerous world

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

1

With the signing of an 'all-for-one' pact, Russia’s new African empire starts to take shape

AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED

22 September 2023

With the signing of an 'all-for-one' pact, Russia’s new African empire starts to take shape

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

6

Prigozhin meets his maker: Payback time as Wagner Group’s leadership decapitated

PUTIN’S REVENGE

24 August 2023

Prigozhin meets his maker: Payback time as Wagner Group’s leadership decapitated

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

26

Zimbabwe’s democracy is in ICU facing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, but desire for change is still alive

AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED

18 August 2023

Zimbabwe’s democracy is in ICU facing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, but desire for change is still alive

Phillip van Niekerk

6 min

2

A key African democracy bites the Sahelian dust as Presidential Guard seizes control in Niger

AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED

28 July 2023

A key African democracy bites the Sahelian dust as Presidential Guard seizes control in Niger

Phillip van Niekerk

5 min

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War, again: Ferocious play for power in Sudan spiralling out of control

AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED

17 April 2023

War, again: Ferocious play for power in Sudan spiralling out of control

Phillip van Niekerk

4 min

0

As Russia’s Wagner mercenaries expand over Africa, the continental air smells of Cold War again

8 February 2023

As Russia’s Wagner mercenaries expand over Africa, the continental air smells of Cold War again

Phillip van Niekerk

6 min

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