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YACOOB ABBA OMAR | South Africa’s soft power push tests Brics’ direction (opens the original)
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The Brics bloc, which held its 18th summit in India, will loom large in next week’s geopolitics conference being hosted by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra). Attracting hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the rest of the globe, attention will be focused on the conference’s theme, Imagining the World in 2040. One of the conference preparatory documents notes that many of the Global South states are in competition — or even conflict — with each other or belong to
YACOOB ABBA OMAR | Mecca pact signals realignment in Middle East power dynamics (opens the original)
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Analysts are trying to make sense of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, known as the Mecca pact, signed by Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on August 7, and how this will affect global geopolitical scenarios. Some describe it as the first institutional collective defence arrangement in the modern Middle East, while Arash Azizi, writing in The Atlantic, suggests it could be the birth of a new
YACOOB ABBA OMAR | Is not voting an infantile disorder? (opens the original)
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In a 1920 critique of ultra-leftist communists Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian revolution, described their emphasis on doctrinaire idealism over practical revolutionary strategy as “an infantile disorder”. A century later David Runciman, author of How Democracy Ends, described Europeans attacking the democratic systems as “children throwing tantrums whilst trusting that the grown-ups will always be there to pick up the pieces”. As much as Lenin and Runciman may be horrified at being cited
YACOOB ABBA OMAR | Character, pluck and endurance should define the spirit of Women’s Month (opens the original)
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Nelson Mandela wrote of Shanthie Naidoo-Tweedie: “I was to see her grow into a fearless girl…. I never suspected that she had such strength of character, pluck and endurance.” These words were reiterated at the weekend’s funeral of the 91-year-old antiapartheid veteran, whose family’s activism stretched as far back as the early 1900s period of Mahatma Gandhi. During the 1969 “Trial of 22″ she endured more than 371 days in detention, much of it in solitary confinement, rather than testify against
YACOOB ABBA OMAR | South Africa needs to build pluralism while celebrating diversity (opens the original)
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South Africa does not lack diversity. Our constitution’s preamble; the coat of arms’ motto ‘!ke e: /xarra //ke’ (drawn from the extinct ǀXam, a member of the Khoisan languages, literally meaning “diverse people unite”) and decades of “rainbow nation” rhetoric acknowledge gender orientation and racial, linguistic, religious and cultural differences. Ongoing anti-migrant actions have shown the shallowness of pluralism, which refers to the negotiated, continuously renewed set of rules and structure
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