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1 month ago | 
currencynews.co.za | Greg Mills |Ray Hartley
Sir,As you prepare for your trip to America to try and find common ground with President Donald Trump and prevent any further deterioration in our relations with the world’s largest economy (and South Africa’s largest investor), some home truths are necessary. Fundamentally, to make progress with President Trump, you will need to do more than lipstick the pig. You will instead need to address three glaring policy contradictions, as painful as these may be politically.
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Greg Mills |Ray Hartley
WAR IN EUROPE OP-ED State of the art in Ukrainian kamikaze drones.
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1 month ago | 
sajr.co.za | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills
If President Cyril Ramaphosa is serious about resetting South Africa’s relationship with the United States, he needs to move quickly to demonstrate that the country is taking a less radical position on Palestine and reopen diplomatic relations with Israel. His recent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Pretoria showed that South Africa is intent on rebuilding its image as a more neutral player in international relations.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Greg Mills |Ray Hartley
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Tshwane this past week is to be welcomed. It may even show that South Africa is finally moving away from years of blind loyalty to Russia’s Vladimir Putin in favour of a more balanced approach to the invasion of Ukraine. Ramaphosa spoke with US President Donald Trump ahead of the meeting to signal to the US that South Africa wants to be a constructive player on the global stage. Don't want to see this?
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills
COALITION GOVERNMENT OP-ED Voters were positive about the Government of National Unity despite 72% saying SA’s economy was in bad shape and more than half indicating that their current living conditions were difficult.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
rusi.org | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills
There has seldom been as ill-considered a rant as that placed on record by the South African Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool at an online dialogue organised by an African National Congress (ANC) think tank. During a feverish ‘analysis’ of the US, Rasool managed to insult by name the US President, Donald Trump, his strongest ally, Elon Musk and the Vice President, JD Vance. In one fell swoop he has placed himself (now persona non grata in the US) and his country in jeopardy.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
rusi.org | Greg Mills |Ray Hartley
South Africa’s defiance of US pressure over land expropriation and foreign policy has triggered economic consequences, raising fears of a Zimbabwe-style decline. ‘So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe’, said Robert Mugabe in September 2002. ‘Let our Africans come first in the development of Africa. Not as puppets, not as beggars but as a sovereign people’.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
allafrica.com | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills
At the heart of the GNU's dysfunction lies a simple sleight of political hand and a misinterpretation of the desire of the Constitution. There is a fundamental difference between an administration being voted back into office to continue with its programme and a new administration being elected because the public wants change.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills
South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) wrote to the government of Taiwan in October 2024 instructing the Taipei Liaison Office to shut up shop in Pretoria and move to Johannesburg under a different name by the end of February 2025. This request was reiterated by Dirco in a subsequent letter setting an eviction deadline of the end of March. Contemporary Taiwan emerged in 1949 with the end of the Chinese Civil War.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Ray Hartley |Greg Mills
The ANC, unable to escape the gravity of its liberation movement past, continues to act as though it is the sole representative of the people. This is no longer the case. The Government of National Unity (GNU) is not a continuation of the old ANC administration, it is a new administration which came into being after unchecked ANC rule was rejected by voters in the May 2024 election.
