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Development, Not Deportation: The Case for a SADC Marshall Plan
By Mavuso Msimang Last year, the South African government spent an estimated R500 million deporting 109,344 undocumented African migrants. Do the arithmetic, as one occasionally must in this line of work, and the figure comes to roughly R2,670 for every person...
Organisations launch campaign against Xenophobia, for African Unity
By Zubeida JafferClose to 80 community groups across South Africa and beyond are launching an effort to unite Africa and mobilise against xenophobia on the eve of Women’s Day, 8 August 2026. The coalition says rising anti‑migrant violence threatens African solidarity...
New U.S. Army Psychological Operations Company launched to “influence and persuade” Africans
By Zubeida JafferOn 15 July 2026, the U.S. Army formally activated a new psychological operations company dedicated to the African continent. The unit, Delta Company, 7th Psychological Operations Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne), also uses the nickname...
Credit ratings are not fair towards African Economies
Africa Must Stop Exporting Wealth and Importing CreditworthinessBy Prof Nicky MorganAfrica finds itself in a peculiar and deeply consequential paradox. The continent possesses some of the world’s richest deposits of strategic minerals, yet remains among the least...
Dearest Madiba
I write this article to mark Mandela Day (18 July) and hope my words reach you wherever you are in the heavens. In this month 16 years ago (on 11 July 2010) you and Mam Graca floated across the field in a golf cart at Soccer City in Johannesburg, the first World Cup...
Where will this week take South Africans and Africans?
By Professor Nicky MorganHistorical solidarity creates a moral obligation to treat people humanely and fairly, but it does not require a state to surrender its responsibility to govern migration, protect public resources, or prioritize the constitutional rights of its...
