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Slaves cut cane in the Caribbean. The recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations explores slavery around the world.

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)

Sadio Mane may be ruled out of the World Cup due to injury. (Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images)

2022 Fifa World Cup: What’s the deal in group A?

Senegal and The Netherlands should go through but Qatar will not want to find themselves on the wrong side of history

Pullout: Rob Jetten, Holland’s environment and energy minister, said it would withdraw from the deal over climate change concerns.

We quit, says the Netherlands of fossil fuel agreement

Holland pulls out of Energy Charter Treaty over climate change concerns

Food importers and local manufacturers are lobbying against a heavy anti-dumping tariff imposed by the South African International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) on frozen french fries imported from Europe. (Gado/Getty Images)

Local french fry importers push back against anti-dumping tariff

Anti-dumping levies ensure fair prices in industries with both foreign and local players. However, the frozen chip industry depends on imports to keep the slap chips affordable

Racket: Frank Lammers plays Ferry Bouman, a Dutch druglord in the Netflix series ‘Undercover’. Photo: Jo Voets

Screen Grab: A big sting in the small tale of Undercover’s confined setting

The Dutch-Belgian crime thriller, set on a campsite, makes the most of its confined setting

The bad news headlines may be true but the good news is often overlooked

Pandemic accelerates decline of printed news, but trust in media grows — report

Covid-19 has forced newsrooms to find new business models, but the public has turned to the news more in the last year

The service provider, LNG, has been ordered to pay back the profit earned from the R113.2 million PPE contract

Corona waste is harming animals, everywhere

Single-use PPE, such as face masks and gloves, is hurting and killing wildlife and pets around the globe

After a goalless 90 minutes, Dutch midfielder Jackie Groenen broke the deadlock in the 99th minute of a tense contest, breaking Swedish hearts in the process. (Getty)

Groenen strikes to take Netherlands through to World Cup final against USA

The European Champions have a chance to become world champions when they take on the current holders of the Fifa Women’s World Cup

Police on the scene after a gunman opened fire on a tram in Utrecht. (Reuters/Piroschka van de Wouw)

Dutch vote in ‘Rutte referendum’ after shooting

The ballot, in which 13 million people are eligible to vote, will be widely watched abroad as a bellwether for European Parliament elections in May

Dutch authorities said they were still investigating a likely terrorist motive for the shooting. (Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuetrs)

Dutch police arrest suspect after three shot dead on tram

Mosques and schools were closed across the Netherlands’ fourth-largest city following the bloodshed

Police on the scene after a gunman opened fire on a tram in Utrecht. (Reuters/Piroschka van de Wouw)

One dead in possible terror attack on Dutch tram

One person has been killed after a gunman opened fire on a tram in the Dutch city Utrecht.

Local media showed photographs of masked, armed police and emergency vehicles surrounding a tram that had stopped near a road bridge.

‘Multiple wounded’ in Dutch tram shooting: police

Authorities in the Netherlands say several people have been injured in a shooting on a tram in Utrecht

Former  Banyana captain Janine van Wyk in the number five jersey. File photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images

Banyana suffer 2-1 loss against Netherlands

This was the first match of the year for both sides who were using it to kick-start preparations for the upcoming Women’s Soccer World Cup

Daily bread: The spongy flatbread injera is not a Dutch invention but has been Ethiopia’s staple food for centuries

Whose injera is it anyway?

A Dutch company holds the patent for Ethiopia’s most popular food — but now Ethiopia wants its intellectual property back

Rwanda’s Genocide Memorial burial site.

Rwanda can’t achieve reconciliation without fixing its democracy

As Rwanda marks the 24th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, much more needs to be done to unite the country

Floraes Mallewagen

Tulip mania: The classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

The Bitcoin crash was dubbed a "tulip mania 2.0" but there is one problem with the story of the Dutch financial craze — much of the story is untrue

Woolworths food and clothing retailer.

Winter Olympics calling for Ghana’s skeleton ace

After failing to qualify as a sprinter, Ghana’s Akwasi Frimpong is set to become the second athlete from West Africa to compete in Pyeongchang

High time: The global medical cannabis industry is expected to generate $82.9-billion by 2027 and the International Monetary Fund has said cannabis is the 59th-largest economy in the world.

Dutch councils aim high in dope growing experiment

Local Dutch councils are queueing up to join a government experiment to grow marijuana which could see its production legalised in the Netherlands.

Fipronil is commonly used to get rid of fleas

Dutch, Belgians launch raids as Europe egg scandal grows

Millions of eggs have been destroyed or taken off the shelves across Europe

Battle of the bands: Jonas Gwangwa

These five countries are conduits for the world’s biggest tax havens

These countries funnel major corporate money into secret offshore tax shelters, according to a new study.