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Within the SACU region, there is supposed to be free movement of agricultural goods, with a few exceptions, including national security and when there are crop and animal diseases. (Madelene Cronje)
AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA AFCFTA

The challenge of regional agricultural trade

Within the SACU region, there is supposed to be free movement of agricultural goods, with a few exceptions, including national security and when there are crop and animal diseases

  • Wandile Sihlobo
6 min read
Across festivals, indigenous knowledge exchanges, and cross-border tourism, Southern Africans are integrating themselves long before policymakers catch up. Photo: Lake of Stars
6TH SADC REGIONAL POLICY WORKSHOP ON INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

How culture, not politics, is quietly uniting Southern Africa

Member States creating a regional identity built from lived experience rather than official agreements

  • Collins Mtika
7 min read
African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores. (AFP)
AFRICA

‘Fortress Europe’s’ African victims

The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies

  • Adekeye Adebajo
6 min read
African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores. (AFP)
AFRICA

Home may be the least bad option for African migrants

To keep migrants away, Fortress Europe has extended its walls into African countries such as Morocco and Mauritania

  • Borso Tall
4 min read
Migrants of various nationalities are rescued by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in international waters on September 30, 2023. The migrants are from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chat, Senegal and Mali. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Europe brewed its so-called ‘migrant crisis’

Decades before today’s migrants boarded small boats to Europe to ‘take their jobs’, European fishing ships were trawling West African waters, taking food and jobs from the…

  • The Continent
  • Jaume Portell
  • Èlia Borràs
6 min read
CYBER SECURITY

EU leaders are looking to improve economic security and resilience 

Creating an environment for small businesses to thrive in is of particular concern

  • Partner Content
6 min read
EU

Project Officer wanted – Delegation of the EU

The EU Delegation to the Republic of South Africa is based in Pretoria

  • Special Reports
1 min read
The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP
BELARUS

Prelude to an apocalyptic, dystopian scenario: Russia’s war on Ukraine

Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?

  • Denis Venter
23 min read
Josep Borrel’s depiction of Europe as a garden that must protect itself from jungle invaders reveals deeply entrenched feelings of superiority. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
AFRICA

What we can learn from EU top diplomat’s racist metaphors

Josep Borrel’s depiction of Europe as a garden that must protect itself from jungle invaders reveals deeply entrenched feelings of superiority

  • Aghogho Akpome
7 min read
Having committed to pursuing a much closer partnership with African governments and the African Union, the European Union must consider how it can best contribute to Africa’s security and economic prospects. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
AFRICA

EU/AU summit: Another missed opportunity?

Between Africa and Europe, is it possible to talk of a win-win partnership, of complementarity and common interests?

  • Landry Ninteretse
5 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
CARBON EMISSIONS

‘South Africa will decline finance deal on energy if terms are bad’

Cyril Ramaphosa says the terms of $8.5-million climate finance offered to South Africa by wealthy countries are not yet set in stone

  • Tunicia Phillips
6 min read
Women must be allowed to determine their own future
AFGHANISTAN

Gender equality is a political priority

Here’s how the EU is continuing to support women and girls worldwide

  • Jutta Urpilainen
  • Josep Borrell
5 min read
, on February 8 – Soybean fields in Argentina are often fumigated with glyphosate, a herbicide which is probably carcinogenic according to the World Health Organization (WHO), but which is needed to maintain crops of transgenic seeds. The first trial for the possible effects of Round Up -Monsanto’s polemic herbicide containing gliphosate- starts on July […]
BANS

EU ships banned bee-killing pesticides to South Africa and other countries

Neonicotinoid, manufactured by Syngenta and Beyer, is banned in the European Union because it kills pollinators and causes other environmental harms

  • Sheree Bega
12 min read
At the coalface: In a statement, President Cyril Ramaphosa described the political declaration as a “watershed moment not only for our own just transition, but for the world as a whole”.
CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION

South Africa strikes historic R130bn deal with rich countries to move away from coal

Local climate activists say transparency and accountability are crucial as they await further details on the deal

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Emissions rise from the cooling towers of the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Matla coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AIR POLLUTION

Eskom is the world’s worst-polluting power company by SO2

Eskom alone spews more sulphur dioxide into the air than the entire combined power sector emissions of any country except for India

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read