Brooks Spector is a former US citizen, and a former US diplomat with extensive experience of the country, as such his role at DM is to report on international news, particularly US news (which are highly influential to the daily lives of all people - including South Africans). And lets face it, there is nothing in the US more influential on South Africans than the machinations of the government and no part of government more influential on our lives than the white house.
During the previous years he was reporting as diligently on news around the Obama administration, both good and bad, and his never-ending battle with congress. 
If you have no interest in the events in the white house and the news from that side of the pond, then don't read his pieces. It will be some time before anything happens elsewhere in the world more important to us than these things. 
Maybe the upcoming UK snap election.