Adapting to the world’s second-largest economy’s changing demands is key to boosting resilience
The growing emphasis on Xi is fuelling concerns – even in the Communist Party – that China is now falling back towards a Mao-type personality cult.
Deep business ties between South Africa and China exist not because of but in spite of diplomacy.
The Africa-China summit will provide an opportunity to get a feel for how the Chinese President is responding to democratic developments in Africa.
Chinese company BoyaLife plans on supplementing China’s growing demand for beef by producing 100 000 cow embryos a year.
The fact that the largest target was about investment, not aid, illustrates Beijing’s view that investment is a positive force for development.
But the first official meeting between the two countries could backfire for the Taiwanese leader.
The growth of ethical investors feeds into the vast expansion of the country’s renewable energy.
But the Pentagon is insisting its naval provocation did not breach any international maritime laws.
Chinese and African health ministers have adopted a declaration to increase access to facilities, medication, health workers and training in Africa.
The Chinese embassy requested that the subject be introduced and will be responsible for bringing in teachers from China and training SA teachers.
Business reporter Wang Xiaolu has been paraded on Chinese state TV to make an on-air "confession" for supposedly triggering stock market chaos.
Despite South African students loving the country, China is not entirely happy with the African influx.
The horrors of Japanese camps are being told but nothing is being said of what followed.
Despite the 39% rout, dual-listed shares on the mainland are still double Hong Kong’s prices.
The detention of Wang Yu was the opening salvo in an unprecedented crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers.
Not even Black Monday’s woes could shake the buddy-buddy ties between the two economies.
Journalist António Capalandanda cast aspersions on Luanda’s Beijing ties and has now fled to Durban, seeking refuge.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” – Mandela
Economic and political notions gleaned from the East Asian giant are filtering into South Africa.
South Africa is finishing an assembly line: executives from the likes of Eskom go in one end, upgraded ones come out the other, courtesy of China.
The local steel industry is vanishing and about 190 000 people face losing their jobs.
If we are concerned about aspects of China, it is there that we should concentrate our efforts.
China has banned 120 singalong songs that are deemed immoral, to mixed responses from the public.
South Africa is in the crosshairs of a weakening yuan and a strong dollar as China devalues its currency.
Government has informed education authorities that Mandarin will be taught in schools from January, amid claims of Chinese "imperialism" by Sadtu.
Intervention in the market rout leaves the country’s commitment to economic reform in question.
Beijing stock market’s wild gyrations have heightened fears about the financial stability of the world’s second biggest economy.
Though gold is still South Africa’s top export, it has slipped from being the world’s biggest producer in 2006 and is now in sixth position.
The remaining five of the ten South Africans arrested in China will be released, Dirco has said.
Policymakers have gone to unprecedented lengths to prop up stocks struggling after the biggest sell-off in two decades.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has intervened to secure the release of the remaining five detainees while in China on an official visit.