Author: CARL NIEHAUS
South Africa is Deliberately Being De-Industrialised: What Must Be Done?
In the heart of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, where the hum of factories once promised…
The SCO Summit: The Multipolar Global Order is Here and Unstoppable
The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, China, stands as a watershed moment…
Why the EFF Went to Court About the Fuel Levy: A Regressive Tax that Punishes the Poor and Violates Budgetary Processes
On 21 May 2025, South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, announced a 4-cent fuel…
South Africa Has No Legal, Nor Economic, Alternative But To Implement Strict Border Control And Deport All Illegal Foreigners
There are instances when it is a matter of semantics, and a waste of time,…
Sanef, Media24’s Blind Support For Maughan: A Sad Tale Of Stratcom Journalism On Steroids
When I arrived on Wednesday the 22nd of March at the Pietermaritzburg High Court, to support President Jacob Zuma in his private criminal prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and Media24 journalist Karyn Maughan, I was met with the extraordinary sight of journalists who are members of SA National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), picketing with placards stating that the prosecution of Maughan was an ‘attack on media freedom’. As I had to pass the SANEF picket line in order to get into…