There are voices in both the ANC and the DA, according to an analyst who is not far from each other in the negotiations process. 

Israel must win the battle of ideas if it is to defeat Hamas and bring an end to the fighting in Gaza, a former head of the Israeli Intelligence Service has said. Ami Ayalon, who led the Israeli security agency Shin Bet in 1996 said that it was not enough for Israel to destroy Hamas in battle, it must give the Palestinians the opportunity to embrace a two-state solution. The former intelligence chief dismissed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy of completely destroying Hamas. Instead, Ayalon argued: “We must win the battle of ideas if we are to defeat Hamas. “We…

The former US defense secretary, James Mattis, has warned that America will need to strengthen its military forces to counter the  joint threat from Russia and China. Mattis, a former US Marine Corps general, spoke of the growing nexus between the two autocratic regimes, which is now supported by Iran and North Korea, in a speech focussing on “America’s place in a dangerous world”. The 73-year-old general, who also served as the defence secretary in the Trump administration, spoke out at the same time as Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to sign…

Negotiators who hunkered down to reach an agreement on the Cabinet and roles in Ramaphosa’s government appear to have hit a deadlock.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a blind spot. It fails to recognise disinformation it creates. This means that it has limitations in the fight against disinformation. Experts have found that AI tools can be tricked when attempting to label machine versus human generated content. Paulius Pakutinskas, university professor and board member of Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania, said: “Not everything that is created by AI is recognised by AI.” Experts demonstrated the vulnerability of AI content detectors. Two techniques were presented by Aldan Creo, Technology Research Specialist at Accenture, at The European Dialogue on Internet Governance: Pakutinskas also described his experience…

Israel is on the brink of an all-out war with the terrorist group Hezbollah, a former Israeli Intelligence officer has warned. Avi Melamed, a former member of the Israeli Defence Forces, said that any conflict with the Lebanese-based groups would have geo-political consequences.Mr Melamed, who is now a Fellow of Intelligence and Middle East Affairs for the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, said he believed Hezbollah is running out of Israeli targets to strike without triggering a significant counterattack from Jerusalem.In an interview with National Security News, the former officer said: “The ramifications would be huge, it will inevitably result in the…

US and British intelligence chiefs are recruiting disaffected members of Russia’s high command humiliated by the Kremlin’s failure to win the war in Ukraine. Senior intelligence officials within the CIA and MI6 believe that a growing number of senior officers within the Russian military now view the war as a major miscalculation by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to intelligence sources. Morale amongst the Russian military elite is also believed to be low after several senior officers have died in mysterious circumstances – such as falling out of windows – while others have been arrested and charged with corruption…

There is desperation in Zuma’s speech. Beneficiaries of the July 2021 looting in South. Africa or those facing prison sentences place their hope in Zuma.

China is recruiting talented citizens through local “hacking competitions” and weaponising their talents to attack Western governments, according to a report by ETH Zurich University’s Centre for Security Studies. The revelation, coupled with recent admissions by Dutch officials about the wide scope of Chinese hacking efforts, has amplified fears about China’s growing “hack-for-hire” programme. The report titled “From Vegas to Chengdu”, uncovers a two part hacker system: Eugenio Benincasa, report author and senior researcher, documents how Chinese security researchers began dominating international hacking competitions after 2014. At the Pwn2Own competition, Chinese teams’ winnings increased from 13% in 2014 to 79%…

China is on course to develop an arsenal of up to 1,000 nuclear weapons within six years, the head of Nato has warned. Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general, said the communist state was investing heavily in modern weaponry, including nuclear missiles, which would grow to 1,000 warheads by 2030. He added that the dual threats of nuclear armed adversaries – China and Russia – was a new threat to the west and Nato which could no longer be ignored. Mr Stoltenberg said: “And that means that in a not very distant future Nato may face something that it has never…

There is a new sense of optimism among South African citizens living with power blackouts, deteriorating services and an ailing economy that the backward slide that began under Jacob Zuma’s reign, could be reversed.

Kwazulu-Natal is the biggest threat to stability in South Africa.