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The demographic case is equally striking. More than 60% of Africans are under 25. By 2050, one in three people aged 15 to 24 anywhere on Earth will be African. A continent this…
Easter in the time of war
The senseless US-Israel war has caused economic tremors around the world and sucked all of us into an unprecedented crisis characterised by soaring oil prices, the wanton…
Subtle magic of an itinerant statesman
Rasool is perhaps one of the few South African political figures able to articulate the global consequences of misused narratives
Global Africa’s quest for reparations for crimes against humanity
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
The long taproot of Hamas violence
Horrifying as they were, the events of 7 October were the latest twist in a violent cycle triggered in the distant past
Chagos Islanders confront their postcolonial future
It seems they will be allowed to return home, but not everyone believes this will happen
Ramaphosa is stumbling, but he won’t walk away
South Africa is in the dire position of possessing a weak leader and no potential replacements
Nurses in England stage new walk-out over pay
The main nursing union accuses the government of failing to negotiate seriously on improving their pay deal for the current year, which they say is crucial given the economic…
Malawi vice-president charged in corruption investigation
The long-running inquiry is finally netting some big fish, including a former head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau
‘Restitution’ of looted African art continues colonial policies – and much more is at stake
It was not only objects that were removed, knowledges — social, political, ecological and epistemological organisation —‚on the continent were destroyed
The British monarchy belongs in a theme park
The problem with a “business” that is about nothing but being family is you can’t fire family
The Battle for the Benin Bronzes reaches melting point
Benin City’s looted bronzes are coming home – but the British Museum hasn’t received the memo, writes Carlos Amato
OPINION| Glencore fessed up – but not in Africa
Big corporations can absorb fines as a cost of doing business but a more rigorous system needs to be put in place to combat corruption and bribery
OPINION| China is retooling the capitalist paradigm
The forms of capitalism adopted in the West and in economies such as China are influenced by how early or late those polities were in coming to the game
Three more stages may be added to load-shedding if Eskom runs out of diesel at gas turbines
Fuel prices have soared in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, putting South Africa’s power supply at risk