OPINION

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng concludes her United Nations mandate with a report examining medicide, reproductive genocide and attacks on healthcare in Gaza, Sudan and other conflict zones. By HASSEN LORGAT Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng officially ended her United Nations (UN) mandate as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health...

Long before Africa’s independence era, the Rif Republic challenged Spanish and French colonial rule in northern Morocco. Its anti-colonial struggle, institutions and defence of Amazigh dignity still shape debates on freedom and identity. By SHABODIEN ROOMANAY Ever heard of the Rif Republic? The Riffians? No? Well, most...

Pakistan’s progressive diaspora intellectuals are critical of military dictators of the past. Under Field Marshal Asim Munir, the writer argues, many retreat into euphemism, naming victims but not the system, its prisoners or the man who commands it. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S AHMAD “The clerks began to...

Spain’s increasingly independent stance on Gaza, Morocco’s expanding military partnership with Israel and the renewed migration crisis at Ceuta today raise urgent questions about political leverage and a wider geopolitical realignment. By IQBAL JASSAT In recent days, an eruption of news on a tiny geographical location known...

Cape Town’s Tana Baru commemoration marked 140 years since the colonial closure of South Africa’s oldest Muslim cemetery, honouring the pioneers buried there and recalling the community uprising that defended this sacred ground in 1886. By ANWAR OMAR On a cold, rainy winter’s day in Cape Town,...

Pakistan’s crackdown on protesters in Rawalakot exposes a devastating contradiction at the heart of its Kashmir policy: Islamabad champions self-determination against Delhi while suppressing Kashmiri agency under its own administration. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S AHMAD For more than 70 years, Kashmir has stood as the subcontinent’s most...

Attacks on Amazon data centres in Bahrain show that AI infrastructure carries risks far beyond cloud disruption. As South Africa expands this sector, it must confront military, surveillance, water, energy and human rights concerns. By HASSEN LORGAT The reported attacks on July 28 on artificial intelligence (AI)...

South Africa’s class struggle increasingly unfolds beyond workplaces. This analysis examines organised labour, unemployment and community movements, arguing that leadership must unite workers across production and social reproduction. By DR MPHUTLANE WA BOFELO While correctly emphasising the need for workers and revolutionaries to identify their class interests...

Across Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Gen Z is challenging rigged institutions, examination fraud and political repression. South Asia’s rulers can no longer mistake memes, ridicule and fragmented resistance for political obedience. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S AHMAD South Asia’s rulers have a youth problem. Not the demographic inconvenience...

When Sipho asks to be remembered in duʿa, a brief exchange outside a gate becomes a lesson in dignity, trust and neighbourliness. His story challenges us to see poverty without romanticising it and to turn strangers into neighbours. By ADNAAN ADAMS Professor Aslam Fataar’s reflection on the...