Category: Development
Its been 28 years since South Africa launched SunSat
SUNSAT, an advanced microsatellite developed by students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, was launched by NASA from Vandenberg Airforce Base on a Delta II rocket in May of 1997. Its been 28 years since our first satellite. And 23 years since Mark Shuttleworth became the first South Afr...
How a Garage Idea Became Africa’s Electric Mobility Revolution
South Africa’s trade pivot bungle
IMAGINE an alternative future if you will. A future in which our country instead of wedding itself to BRICS maintained its focus on leading the African continent — the BRICS bloc is really nothing more than a proxy for China's controversial 'belt and road' initiative. Formed on 9 July 2002, the A...
BRICS neo-colonialism demonstrated by Putin’s threat of war against South Africa
REVELATIONS of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's temper tantrums, with a threat of armed aggression against the Republic, including a possible declaration of war, have come to light, after a judge ordered that President Ramaphosa's affidavit on an ICC arrest warrant be made public this week. The...
Putin presents Pretoria with a not-so-pretty pickle
NO SOONER had Pretoria (Tshwane) shown the world that it cared very little for the UN Charter codifying the major principles of international relations, from sovereign equality of States to the prohibition of the use of force in international relations, it found itself facing a legal problem pres...