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Andre Thomashausen

Focac: The 24th anniversary of the Forum on China Africa Co-operation

Andre Thomashausen|Published 8 months ago

China’s President Xi Jinping addresses the Focac summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, in 2015. To help African countries improve their export capabilities, China has ...

Ukraine: little to ‘justify the continuation of carnage’ in conflict

Andre Thomashausen|Published 1 year ago

Picture: Handout / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / AFP / Dated July 8, 2023 – Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky lays flowers and candles during his visit ...

African peace initiative highlights immorality of war

Andre Thomashausen|Published 1 year ago

Pictures: Jairus Mmutle/GCIS and AFP Stringer/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service – President Cyril Ramaphosa has had a call with his counterpart from Ukraine Volodymyr ...

Gorbachev, the last ‘Soviet Czar’

Andre Thomashausen|Published 2 years ago

By Andre ThomashausenSimon Sebag Montefiore, in his biography of Joseph Stalin, labelled him the “Red Czar”. Was Mikhail Gorbachev the last “Soviet Czar”? A tractor ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken came to SA, blinked and left

Andre Thomashausen|Published 2 years ago

Picture: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Cyril Ramaphosa. America’s new foreign relations with Africa appear more exclusionary and forceful than ...