Cutting off communication has become a favourite ploy of some of the continent’s Big Men. Ironically, this harms their standing in the long term Although…
Posts tagged as “Arab Spring”
Following the collapse of communism, Francis Fukuyama famously asserted that humankind was on the threshold of “the end of history”. By this, he meant that…
Nelson Mandela was quoted as saying, “It is not kings and generals that make history but the masses of the people.” This came to mind…
Today I found myself nostalgic for a man I had little appreciation for while he was still the president of our country. I found myself…
The tumultuous tides of human protesters on the streets, bridges and squares of Cairo and Istanbul, speak of frustration with the world as it is…
A maxim of President Francois Hollande’s election campaign was to reduce France’s overseas interventionist activities. Since the 1960s France has intervened militarily on nearly 50…
Two years ago last Friday, a young man from Tunisia named Mohamed Bouazizi died of burn wounds after literally igniting what the world has come…
While in transit at Abu Dhabi International Airport recently world-renowned Professor Cyril Karabus from Cape Town was arrested and jailed over a child’s death that…
Emerging from the widely hailed Arab Spring revolutions is a new threat to world stability and security. The very breadth of the scale of the…