Africa’s global role: Navigating new cold war dynamics on the continent – Solly Moeng
Solly Moeng argues that Africa does not have to offer proxy grounds for global ideological tensions forever.
Cold War
🔒 Why Russia lacks ‘smart’ weapons
Stealing U.S. technology for Russian weapons may once have seemed clever and efficient, but it has left Russia with a military industrial base whose production capacity is fatally reliant on access to Western innovation.
Gorbachev was good for South Africa
Southern Africans have a special reason to thank Mikhail Gorbachev. He helped bring apartheid to an end. He did this both directly and indirectly.
Dethroned ANC could resort to social unrest – Hagedorn
The ANC is no more viable as an opposition party than the National Party was, post 1994. To survive, the ANC needs its RET wing to incite massive social unrest.
US sanctions Africa’s Russian love affair
This will force African governments to go along with US sanctions against Russia, which is a serious imposition on their sovereignty.
Cold War nuclear game theory may not be enough to prevent WW3 – Clem Sunter
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has abruptly transformed the world. We are again talking about a nuclear war and World War 3.
🔒 Premium: 40 years on and the script for dealing with Russia remains eerily similar
To wisely counter Russia’s Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden should study the man who defeated Putin’s old bosses at the Kremlin.
Ukraine: It will be difficult to sit on the fence – Chatham House’s Christopher Vandome
Geographically we may be far from Ukraine but this does not mean South Africa will be able to sit this one out, says Chatham House’s Christopher Vandome.
The unintended consequence which changed the world – for better.
ARPANET evolved into what we now know as the Internet: the modern miracle which has democratised information and brought huge productivity improvements for the entire world.
Cash-strapped Putin catches privatisation bug, but investors aren’t biting
President Vladimir Putin is considering selling stakes in some of Russia’s state jewels to foreign buyers to raise cash for an economy brought to its knees by the collapse in oil prices and sanctions related to Ukraine.