Instead of a climate villain, livestock can be a solution with legs

Opinion|Published

Maasai herders watch their cattle in Tanzania. For places where livestock is deeply embedded in livelihoods and culture, it is critical to see these farm animals ...

Focac: China, Africa join hands in busting poverty, growing economies

David Monyae|Published

Ambassador of China to South Africa Wu Peng addresses South African National Press Club on September 13. Most journalists emphasised that Africa had a lot to learn ...

Internet of fish: empowering Lake Victoria women

Opinion|Published

Rio Fish women fish farmers weighing the fish they harvested from their cage farm near Rasira beach in Homa Bay County, Kenya. Along the shores of East Africa’s ...

Economic diplomacy at the centre of renewed China, Africa relations

Opinion|Published

African leaders applaud Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, after his speech at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing’s ...

KZN engineering graduates step up to end load shedding

Opinion|Published

Eskom’s leadership, from left, Group CEO Dan Markane and Chairperson Mteto Nyati in conversation with Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientso Ramokgopa at ...

A generational opportunity for the Global South

Ashraf Patel|Published

South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile speaks at the ninth annual meeting of the New Development Bank in Cape Town, South Africa. The G20 needs to go ‘Back ...

Lifting 800 million people out of extreme poverty: Lessons for South Africa from China

Opinion|Published

President Cyril Ramaphosa during a state visit to China, where he met with President Xi Jinping ahead of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC). The two ...

Economic co-operation is the bond that binds Africa and China

Opinion|Published

President Cyril Ramaphosa greets Chinese ministers during his state visit on September 3, to China ahead of the 2024 FOCAC annual meeting in Beijing. Initiatives ...

Academics’ roles vital for building a high-quality China-Africa community – Xi Jinping

David Monyae|Published

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, and China’s President Xi Jinping during a ceremony for the delegation of South African Cabinet ministers on a state ...

Trade unionism vs the oligarchy on Labour Day and every day

Opinion|Published

The working people of our country are increasingly aware of the unprecedented level of corporate greed and power we are now experiencing, and the outrageous level ...

Reversing local government financial rot needs a collective effort

Opinion|Published

Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke reported, correctly, “on weaknesses in service delivery planning, reporting and achievement; failing municipal infrastructure; ...

Revolutionising global development financing

Opinion|Published

Established in 2015 by BRICS countries, the NDB is a multilateral development bank for mobilising resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects ...

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

Andre Thomashausen|Published

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

‘Adopting free market socialism, a just thing to do’

Opinion|Published

An automated container dock in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. By adopting a third alternative economic model, which has been tested successfully in Scandinavia, ...

China’s new quality productive forces

David Monyae|Published

A cargo ship loaded with containers berths at a port in Lianyungang, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on August 7, 2024. - China's exports grew slightly slower ...

Overcoming a ‘tapestry’ of conflicts the trigger for growth

Opinion|Published

People work at the construction site of the 385-meter-high Iconic Tower in New Administrative Capital, about 45 km east of Cairo, Egypt, on March 12, 2019. Carried ...

G20 in 2025: Can South Africa follow Brazil’s Big Development agenda?

Opinion|Published

By attending the AU summit earlier in the year, Lula set the scene for his broad development agenda by announcing the Global Alliance Against Hunger. At a time when ...

China: CPC’s third plenum lives up to its billing

David Monyae|Published

BYD auto maker’s electric cars at the international container terminal of Taicang Port at Suzhou Port, in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province. China, already a world ...

Kenyans reject the Finance Bill 2024 amid economic hardship and repression

Opinion|Published

Police heavily repressed the protests against the Finance Bill 2024 on Tuesday June 18. Hundreds were arrested and brutalised in Nairobi by police forces during ...