South Africa

South Africa: Punching above its weight
Juan Acevedo-Ossa — South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding even the great powers in shaping global moral discourse.

Canada and the South African genocide charges against Israel at the ICJ

Africa’s role in Palestinian liberation: An interview with Salim Vally

Oil jabber heard in Dubai: Top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28

A tarnished halo: Reassessing Nelson Mandela’s legacy 10 years after his death

The Johannesburg BRICS Summit’s unrealistic hype

Renewing the Left: Not just doom and gloom

South Africa: Prospects for a new Left

South Africa: Internationalism and the Russia-Ukraine war – the hypocrisy of (some of) the left

The BRICS spall, fall and (try to) reconstitute
Early March 2022 provided a surprising reflection of the extent to which dominant Western norms of international finance could retain hegemony, even as the world’s North-South polarisation suddenly worsened. The Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) was set up by five countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) – at a 2014 Brazilian conference of presidents.
There is no silver lining to South Africa’s Zuma insurrection

By Benjamin Fog