Giorno: 18 Agosto 2022

China’s Trillion-Dollar Research Funds Mostly Spent on Travel and Leisure: Chinese State Media

Read More Chinese authorities had high hopes for China’s chip industry, expecting to see a “semiconductor miracle,” which would then affirm the “advantage of China’s whole nation system,” as well as overcome technology sanctions imposed by the United States. However, eight years into establishment of China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known as the […]

Marikana: South Africa’s dark heart

Read More Ten years since the massacre at the koppie, our first documentary explores what the events on that fateful day tell us about where we stand as a country.  So long after the recommendations of the Farlam Commission, there are few answers and even less accountability from a government, police force and mining company.  […]

US and Taiwan to Begin Trade Talks on Regulations, Agriculture, Labor Standards

Read More Washington and Taipei will soon kick off formal negotiations on the “U.S. Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade” initiative announced on June 1, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) said on Wednesday. Negotiations will take place under the auspices of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States […]

COP27: It’s Africa’s turn to take centre stage

Read More Each year, humanity continues to push our planet past the point of no return. Earth Overshoot Day represents the date when humanity has consumed all the biological resources that Earth is able to regenerate during the calendar year.  In 1980, Earth Overshoot Day was 8 November. This year we reached that day on […]

Why the majority of South Africans don’t know about the Marikana massacre

Read More Only 40% of the South Africans who took part in a recent survey by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) reported knowing enough about the Marikana massacre to be able to explain it to a friend. The HSRC designed and fielded a module of questions in the recently completed annual round of the […]

KwaZulu-Natal opposition parties test ANC-led coalitions

Read More Jeopardy: The Democratic Alliance will bring a motion of no confidence in Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg area)Photo (above): Rajesh Jantilal/AFP Msunduzi has become the third KwaZulu-Natal municipality controlled by an ANC-led coalition to face a vote of no confidence in its leadership from opposition parties. The local municipality joins the eThekwini metropolitan council — […]