Mao Zedong

The South African Communist Party leader continues his tirade against alliance partner ANC for bringing the Democratic Alliance into the unity government

This month serves an opportunity for Nigeria, and the rest of the continent, to study what the Asian giant has done right

China’s economic rise and growing footprint presents an alternative to the West

Some, including Zwelinzima Vavi, say unions risk collapse if they are run like businesses — a critique that Irvin Jim argues is part of a ‘mischievous attack’ on his leadership

If President Xi Jinping allows Russia to divide the world with its war on Ukraine, it is China that will pay the heaviest price

Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms — to heal the scars of Western colonialism and civil war

African leaders’ sartorial choices have been communicating their political orientations for centuries

Legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause over plans to give the president a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a superpower.

A magical moment took place recently. A symbolic reconstitution of 60 000 into a single force in the form of Malema as Mao, writes Andile Mngxitama.

The 36th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death was met by official silence but spontaneous commemorations sprouted across China.

In the glare of the social media, it has been impossible for China’s authorities to keep a clamp on things, especially why Bo Xilai had to leave.

A bronze yak and an African leopard skin are among official presents given to the late dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu that will be auctioned off.

China formally kicked off mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule on Thursday.

It’s 11am in Yan’an: time for a daily rerun of Mao’s revolution, finds Tania Branigan.

Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream — that one day China would host the Olympic games.