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Jan 12, 2025 | 
forbes.com.au | Sara Dorn |Joe Walsh |Derek Saul
Skip to content Billionaires Published on January 13, 2025 Bannon said Musk “should go back to South Africa,” where he is from, asking, “why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, White South Africans . . . making comments at all on what goes on in the United States?” according to a Washington Post translation of Musk’s interview with Corriere della Sera. Bannon—a controversial figure whose influence over Trump has ebbed and flowed for years—said he would “do anything” to...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Joe Walsh
Two kilometres below the earth, hundreds of miners are dying – slowly, painfully, and out of sight. Above them, volunteers scramble to save lives, hauling rope from builders’ shops and knotting it together in desperation. This is the scene at Shaft 11 of Buffelsfontein’s long-abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, where an illegal mining operation turned tragic. Rescue work is painstakingly slow.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Joe Walsh
Sindile Mavundla has cycled since he was five and has always seen pedal power as a source of freedom. But he was a rarity in the township on the outskirts of Cape Town where he is from. “Growing up in Khayelitsha, I was the only person on my street with a bike,” he says.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson |Stephen Prager |Joe Walsh
Osamah Khalil of Syracuse University is the author ofA World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden, a vital history of the wars of the last 50 years. Prof. Khalil shows how, from the Vietnam War to the present day, American leaders (and American pop culture) conjured a "world of enemies" in which force was preferable to diplomacy.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson |Joe Walsh |Alex Skopic
Investigative journalist Jordan Chariton explains how powerful forces conspired to poison the Flint water supply and why it's still being covered up. Jordan Chariton of Status Coup News is a leading investigative journalist and the author of We The Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans, a major exposé of one of the most outrageous scandals of our time.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Joe Walsh |Nathan J. Robinson |Ciara Moloney
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 July/Aug Details The myth’s purpose is to make it seem dangerous to have Black people in control of the government. The first half of this year saw South Africa mark 30 years of democracy since apartheid officially ended with the country’s first free vote in April 1994. The following month, the country’s seventh post-apartheid Parliament was elected on May 29.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Joe Walsh
Elizabeth Tshabalala remembers the night in 1955 when South Africa’s apartheid regime ethnically cleansed her multiracial and culturally vibrant suburb of Sophiatown. “The trucks came to move us out in the evening, and the policeman were standing there with guns,” she says. The police walked into the house, rounding up the family and loading them on to the truck with all their possessions, not telling them where they were going.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Joe Walsh |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson
Is Nietzsche best categorized as a reactionary or a champion of personal liberation? Daniel Tutt, author of a new book on Nietzsche's thought, weighs in. Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thinkers on both the right and left have found inspiration in Nietzsche, and his ideas show up everywhere from the anti-democratic elitism of H.L. Mencken to the liberatory politics of the Black Panther Party.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Joe Walsh
Labour is planning to scrap the Tories’ flagship Rwanda migration deal if it wins this week’s election, and senior political figures in the country agree the scheme should be dumped. Speaking to i, Rwandan presidential candidate Frank Habineza objected to the plan for burdening Africa with a European problem and echoed Reform UK’s arguments that asylum seekers should be returned to the first country they came through.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Joe Walsh
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa is on course for a seismic change of leadership, but many are still seeking an exit, with crime, unemployment and a lack of opportunities fuelling a “brain drain” of tens of thousands to the UK and elsewhere. The country’s most important election in 30 years could end the dominance of the African National Congress (ANC) party, which led South Africa out of the brutal apartheid era in 1994.
