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While Trump lobbied, Navi did not. Here is the story….
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...
The Bus Driver’s Daughter becomes first SA woman to win Nobel Peace Prize
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...
Three years on, Freedom Steps remember every Palestinian child killed
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...
Why SA won’t bend to Washington’s dictates
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...
Holding the tears of a nation
By Zubeida JafferPrincess Vlei in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs became a sea of purple and black on Heritage Day in protest against the wave of violence and killings of women in the country. Hundreds of women, men, children and a dog wound their way down the newly...
Lagos meets Soweto on a fashion runway at Vilakazi Street
By Len KalaneOn 26 September 2026, Vilakazi Street in Soweto — the only street in the world to have been home to two Nobel Peace laureates — will once again become a runway for African excellence. Two Nigerian designers and six South African designers will share one...
