Abhik Kumar Chanda
latest news & developmentsChina to cement ties with South Africa
Wen Jiabao this week embarks on the first visit to South Africa by a Chinese premier in 50 years as the continental powers join forces to push the developing world’s agenda in…
June 16 ‘an excuse to go drinking’
South Africa this week marks the 30th anniversary of a watershed in its anti-apartheid struggle when hundreds of children in Soweto protesting the forced teaching of Afrikaans…
Angolan war orphans start new lives, reunited with kin
Teresa Nandulo (13) mothered her three siblings for three years after losing her father during Angola’s 27-year war and her own mother soon after. Reunited with relatives, she…
Unions protest visit by Israeli ‘hate-monger’
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a four-day visit to South Africa on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian groups denounced as a retreat from the struggle for equality…
Troops head for Liberia ‘in days’
Hopes for a break to the fighting in Liberia’s besieged capital were on the rise on Thursday as a west African military team assessed the situation for the proposed deployment of…