By Tarik Cyril AmarIn Brazil, the incumbent left-wing president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – known simply as Lula – has decisively won a dramatic run-off election against his challenger from the right – and US favourite – Flavio Bolsonaro. As his de facto sponsor, US...

I am a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. There are five of us. Five people, appointed by a parliament most of the planet could not find on a map, who decide, once a year, which human being the world has agreed to call good. I know. I know. I think about it on...

By PiE Features DeskNavi Pillay’s Nobel win places South Africa in rare company, reaches back to apartheid-era courtrooms in Durban, and lands, with some irony, in the middle of Pretoria’s feud with Washington.She heard the news in a courthouse, which is fitting. On...

By Anwar OmarOn Wednesday, October 7, an interfaith procession carried 20-metre shrouds bearing the names of the children killed in Gaza through Cape Town to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s resting place, on what would have been his 95th birthday. Unveiling the shroud...

By Fikile MbalulaAmbassador Brent Bozell III’s recent opinion piece titled, SA to pay the price of inaction as United States runs out of patience, is a candid statement. We welcome candour, even when it arrives with a visa restriction policy attached. It is better to...