Ambassador Du Xiaohui Meets with Hon. Elisha Matambo, Minister of Copperbelt Province of Zambia

On February 16, 2024, Ambassador Du Xiaohui met with Hon. Elisha Matambo, Minister of Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Ambassador Du said that mining cooperation is an essential part of China-Zambia cooperation. China is willing to develop high-quality mining cooperation with Zambia to deepen the cooperation in jointly building the Belt and Road and implement consensus reached by the two Heads of State with concrete actions. The Chinese Embassy is willing to enhance cooperation […]

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Sport

Crusaders blow as All Blacks try machine Jordan out for six months

All Blacks try machine Will Jordan will be out for six months because of shoulder surgery, the Canterbury Crusaders announced Tuesday, a blow to the defending Super Rugby champions on the eve of the new season. Jordan, 25, who was the top try-scorer at last year's World Cup, needs an operation on a pre-existing injury and will miss the entire Super Rugby campaign that kicks off this week. The […]

February 20, 2024 6

World

Alexei Navalny had a vision of a democratic Russia. That terrified Vladimir Putin to the core

By Robert Horvath, La Trobe University Alexei Navalny was a giant figure in Russian politics. No other individual rivalled the threat he posed to the Putin regime. His death in an Arctic labour camp is a blow to all those who dreamed he might emerge as the leader of a future democratic Russia. What made Navalny so important was his decision to become an anti-corruption crusader in […]

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World

Indian Farmers Reject Govt’s Proposal after a Tense Standoff

Farmer unions in India have rejected a government proposal that offered them a floor price for some crops, saying they will start marching to New Delhi this week again unless a better offer is made. The Indian government's proposal was made over the weekend in a bid to break a deadlock with the agitating farmers who have been protesting for a week now. But farmers say the proposals will not […]

February 20, 2024 7

Namibia

Windhoek High Court Rejects Prosecutor General’s Bid for South African Curators in Fishrot Assets Case

Windhoek's High Court denied Prosecutor General Martha Imalwa's application to appoint South African curators as administrators of assets linked to incarcerated Fishrot suspects. The accused individuals contested Imalwa's choice of appointing South African curators Johan Engelbrecht and Coenraad Stander of Icon Insolvency Practitioners (Pty) Ltd. Former justice minister Sakeus Shanghala, ex-fisheries minister Bernhardt Esau, his son-in-law Tamson Hatuikulipi, former Investec Asset Management Managing Director James Hatuikulipi, as well as Pius […]

February 20, 2024 9

South Africa

South African Health Department Dispels Misleading Claims on Covid-19 Vaccine-Related Deaths

The South African Department of Health has refuted a circulating voice note on social media falsely asserting that individuals vaccinated against Covid-19 are succumbing to the vaccine. The misleading voice note advocates for the use of an unregistered over-the-counter product called Nature's Choice Activated Charcoal as a supposed remedy to prevent these alleged deaths. Foster Mohale, the department's spokesperson, has clarified that there are no reported deaths causally linked to […]

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Oshiwambo

Ovapambele vomupresident Geingob, vadimina opo akafudikwe konele yomapendafule.

Ovapambele va nakufya omupresident Hage Geingob, ovati ove shitambulako opo omupresident afudikwe konele yomapendafule (Heroes Acre) ponele yoku fudikwa medu looxekulululwa ngaashi shili pamulandu wepata nopa mufyuululwakalo wavo. Menghundafana no Nampa, omupambele womupresident , John //Khamuseb okwati omupresident Geingob, okwa dja mepata lovakwaanime, nopa mufyuululwakalo omunhu wepata aalo ngeenge okwafi, okuna oku fudikwa opo tapu hangwa eshe laye. Okwa yelifa kutya pefimbo loku dalwa kwo kanona kepata lovakwaanime, eshe ile […]

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Business / Economics

Jobs in South Africa: the labour market is recovering from COVID – but unskilled and less educated people are still being left behind

By Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape For more than three decades the South African economy has had very high rates of joblessness. The country’s economy has been unable to create enough jobs for its growing army of workers. This has partly been because of the stagnant economic growth rate of only 1.7% during the 2010s (it was even lower at 0.9% in 2015-2019). Another factor […]

February 20, 2024 7

Africa

Nervous Conditions: on translating one of Zimbabwe’s most famous novels into Shona

By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford The publishing journey of Zimbabwean writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions wasn’t easy. Yet the novel is today considered by many as one of Africa’s 100 best books of the 20th century and is studied at universities around the world. When she submitted the manuscript to publishing houses in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s, they all turned it down. Dangarembga […]

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