Guest Writer

South Africa’s immigration debate reflects a deeper crisis of class, race and unequal access to public services. The writer argues that border enforcement alone cannot resolve the structural pressures driving migration and friction. By DR ZAID LANGA THE fierce debate over undocumented immigration in South Africa is...

At the Cape, Moulood gathers Qur’an, sīrah, salawāt, qiyām and inherited community practice into an expression of Prophetic love. This reflection examines the recognised scholarly positions on gratitude and remembrance of the Prophet ﷺ By ADLI YACUBI In the Cape, Rabīʿ al-Awwal has a sound before it...

As SADC meets for its annual summit, closed governance, electoral instability, mineral dependency, climate emergencies and weak public participation are limiting Southern Africa’s path to inclusive and sustainable regional development. By ASHRAF PATEL Each August, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc meets for its annual...

Seventy-nine  years after independence, Pakistan remains constrained by military dominance, foreign dependence and elite rule. The writer argues that decolonisation requires popular sovereignty, social justice and an autonomous foreign policy. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S AHMAD Every August 14, Pakistan performs sovereignty like a state auditioning for the...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with the family of IDF officer Daniel Perez has drawn criticism from activists, who say South Africa must keep its focus on Palestinian genocide victims and families seeking the return of withheld bodies. By HASSEN LORGAT President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with the family...

Two decades after Condoleezza Rice spoke of the “birth pangs of a new Middle East”, the Mecca pact linking Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan now suggests regional powers are beginning to imagine security beyond the old US-led order. By PROFESSOR JUNAID S AHMAD Twenty years ago, as...

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...