How South Africa’s Corruption Makes It Vulnerable to Foreign Infiltration
With its rampant debt and public embezzlement, South Africa will have difficulty becoming a closer US partner.
Johannesburg
South Africa Should Stand with the Iranian People, Not Their Oppressors
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be dead, but the warm feelings linger on in South Africa. The Islamic Republic’s brutal repression of its civilians and the US-Israeli operation against...
Op-eds
Washington Temporarily Shuts Pretoria Out of the G20
South Africa’s relations with the United States are spiraling downward. “America will be forging ahead with a new G20,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on December 4 — one that does not include...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Al Mustafa University is a terror front
On November 7, 2025, the Daily Mail reported on an Iranian assassination plot against Israel’s ambassador to Mexico. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) orchestrated the...
Op-eds
Former South African Foreign Minister’s U.S. Visa Revoked
“She led South Africa to sue Israel for genocide,” read a flyer for a recent appearance by Naledi Pandor in Houston. Don’t expect another U.S. speech in the near future from the former South African...
Policy Briefs
Hamas Supporters Gather in South Africa, Ruling Party Dares U.S. To ‘Apply Sanctions’
Pro-Hamas organizations gathered in Cape Town on September 27 to hold a march and rally. Prominent South African imam Ebrahim Gabriels addressed the thousands of demonstrators, calling President Donald...
Policy Briefs
South Africa Wants BRICS To Become a Global Naval Force
Ties between South Africa and Iran continue to strengthen. On September 6, Iranian state media reported that Iranian naval commander Captain Hassan Maqsoudlou confirmed that his country’s navy would...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s web of terror and propaganda: The case of Al Mustafa University
Last July, Israel’s ambassador to Argentina gave an interview to Latin America’s leading news platform, Infobae, where he named Edgardo Ruben (aka Suhail) Assad, Abdallah Cerrilla, and Abdul...
Op-eds
South Africa’s corrupted rule of law
South Africa’s minister of police is in bed with gangsters, according to a regional police chief. The South African government has fashioned itself as a guardian of international law in recent...
Op-eds
South African MPs Seek to Criminalize Speech Defending Israel From Apartheid Allegations
A major South African political party seeks to punish key defenders of Israel. Pretoria’s Al Jama-ah party submitted a legal claim on June 2 arguing that members of parliament engaged in unlawful support...
Policy Briefs
5 Ways South Africa Undermines U.S. Interests — and What Must Change
The United States must increase pressure on South Africa to reverse five of its harmful policies. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s arrival in Washington this week to meet with President Donald Trump offers...
Insights
Embracing Iran, South Africa’s ANC Claims ‘We Can’t Hide Our Friends’
South Africa’s ruling party is trying to have its biltong and eat it too. African National Congress (ANC) leaders have indicated a desire to repair relations with the United States but continue cozying...
Policy Briefs
‘We Want a Meaningful Deal’: South African President in Overture to Trump Following Aid Cut
South African President Seeks Deal With Trump: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has stated that he wants to “do a deal” with U.S. President Donald Trump after the United...
Flash Briefs
Lawfare Against Israeli Soldiers
Israeli tourist Yuval Vagdani had to escape for the second time. On October 7, 2023, he survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival near Gaza. Then in the first week of January 2025, he escaped Brazil...
Op-eds
South Africa Is Not Pro-Palestinian, It’s Pro-Hamas
On October 5, 2024 Sheikh Riad Fataar declared, “We are all Hamas.” Fataar — who is the president of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), a large Muslim organization in South Africa — delivered...
Op-eds
South Africa’s Latest Pro-Terror Move
Why is the ANC renaming a major Johannesburg thoroughfare?
Op-eds
Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them
Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...
Op-eds
US Treasury Department designates Islamic State facilitators across Africa
Yesterday, the US Treasury Department sanctioned three Islamic State facilitators based in Zambia, Uganda, and South Africa. The three have operated as part of a coordinated network that moves money between...
Op-eds
South Africa Must Change Course on Hamas
While Washington is primarily focused on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit and address to Congress this week, another side of the global conflagration around Israel’s war of self-defense...
Insights
Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel
Shortly before South Africa accused Israel in the International Court of Justice of committing genocide in its post-Oct. 7 counteroffensive against Hamas, the South African ruling party, the African National...