Dr Jaya Josie The 9th China-South Africa Bi-National Commission meeting between the two countries is taking place in Cape Town on Thursday, 26 March, amidst global trade and energy supply chain disruption. On November 23 last year, South Africa’s Vice-President Paul Mashatile met with China’s Premier Li Qiang and
How should we understand the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s view on governance performance? Watch the video here (https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0322/c90000-20438531.html). Through three stories shared by Chinese President Xi Jinping, we can grasp the CPC’s original aspiration and mission, and understand that benefiting the people is the greatest governance performance.
BRICS is steadily moving towards the creation of an independent payment system and, potentially, even a new unit for mutual settlements. What might the new financial infrastructure of the group look like, and what is it most likely to be based on? Expert forecasts are presented in the TV BRICS
There is a quiet assumption embedded in most coverage of African technology: that the continent is catching up, slowly and unevenly, to a race already well underway. Egypt’s unveiling of Karnak in February 2026 does not dismantle that assumption entirely, but it does complicate it in ways worth sitting with.
The scoreboard said 1-0 to Senegal. Pape Gueye had just struck one of the most beautiful goals in AFCON history, Édouard Mendy had saved a penalty so weak it was almost an insult, and the Lions of Teranga had become African champions for the second time in four years. That
The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is once again in the middle of a very familiar but evolving conflict, one where minerals, militias, and geopolitics intersect with renewed intensity. Recent data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) shows a sharp escalation: the highest number of monthly drone
On 12 March 2026, Honda Motor Company did something its shareholders had not seen since the company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1957: it announced the likelihood of its first-ever annual net loss, the result of a single strategic bet that unravelled in several directions simultaneously. Honda cancelled
On 18 March 2026, Brent crude settled at $107.38 a barrel. Europe’s natural gas benchmark jumped 6% in a single trading day. In Colombo, Sri Lanka, schoolchildren stayed home, not because of a storm or a public holiday in the conventional sense, but because their government ran the numbers on
There is an old saying in trade: every disruption is somebody else’s opportunity. Right now, as two of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints face closure or active threat, that opportunity is sitting directly off the southern tip of Africa. The question is whether South Africa and the continent more
The Case for reclamation There is a version of what Senegal just did to Industries Chimiques du Sénégal that reads as a textbook African agency. A sovereign government, that is armed with audit findings and a democratic mandate, reclaims a strategic national asset from a foreign conglomerate that allegedly bled