Yacoob Cassim

The construction of Mega Project Neom, Saudi Arabia was always going to have an array of dark twists and turns. This is due to its labour being driven by an authoritarian government that had no experience or regard in how to build it appropriately or treat the workers it employs. Now a Pakistani migrant worker

Yemen is not what it was before 2011. The civil war which ensued after the fall of long-time dictator/president Ali Abdullah Saleh has seen the Houthis seize large swaths of the North and the Capital Sana’a. This led to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intervening to weaken Houthi control and restore the provisional

When it comes to United States President-Elect Donald Trump, not everything about him is straight forward. When it comes to American foreign policy on the Middle East a second Trump Administration is likely to feature it high on Washington’s agenda. During his previous term in office Trump chose to go to Saudi Arabia for his

In Durban there has been great Jubilancy at the end of Load shedding. But now some have found them selves more in the dark than before. In the last 220 days since the end of deliberate power outages, those who were among the most destitute in Durban are saying the return of lasting electricity has

President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed hope that United States (US) President elect Donald Trump will make it to South Africa next year for the G20 summit. Ramaphosa clearly hopes for better relations with Washington under a second Trump Administration. The South African President joined world leaders in congratulating Trump for winning the US elections. Trump

President of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru), Thulani Ngwenya, in an alarming characterisation of South Africa’s ruling coalition has described the Government of National Unity (GNU) as a “forced marriage” fraught with constant disputes between its partners. The GNU is indeed a marriage; a marriage of convenience which in some ways could