SA can't go rogue any longer

South Africa's solidarity with a rag-bag of international terror organisations and rogue states in the Middle East is not returning the benefits the ANC hoped for.

- William Saunderson-Meyer

Instead of this alliance of outlaws being the next big thing in geopolitics, it's imploding.

Over the past 20 months, the Iranian-orchestrated "axis of resistance" - Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad regime in Syria and the Houthi in Yemen - that for decades kept the region ablaze in pursuit of wiping Israel from the face of the earth, has been virtually obliterated. Now it is Iran's turn.

Over the course of just a week, Israel has reduced Iran's feared military, terror and repressive apparatus to ruins. The Jewish state has control of Iranian skies, has subverted the banking system and has been so successful at assassinating Iran's military and nuclear leadership elite that cadre promotion, rather than being coveted, is now a death sentence.