Africa’s top 10 emerging brands

Read More Fashion brands and personalities in Africa had a great 2022.  We saw the likes of Thebe Magugu venture into collaborations with fashion powerhouses such as Valentino and Adidas. Adebayo Oke-Lawal, Adama Ndiaye, Laureen Kouassi-Olson and a few others made it to the Business of Fashion (BoF) 500. Luxury French brand Chanel debuted at […]

A tribute to Paul Daphne

Read More Daphne was ethical and incorruptible. He espoused the true values of the  post-apartheid South Africa The North West Province has lost a great and humble giant in the person of Paul Daphne. For as long as I knew him, Paul was a selfless, committed, dedicated and true revolutionary, absolutely focussed on the massive […]

FTSE 100 hits record high

Read More The UK’s blue-chip share index has hit an all-time high of 7,906.58. The FTSE 100 index was up 84 points or 1.1%, taking it above the previous record high of 7,903.50 set on 22 May 2018. It gained as investors hoped that the inflation shock from energy prices may be easing and that […]

US secretary of state postpones China visit after spy balloon flies over Montana

Read More The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is reported to have postponed a planned visit to China this weekend after the intrusion of a high-altitude Chinese balloon into US airspace. China had claimed the balloon that flew over Canada and the US was for “mainly meteorological purposes” and had been blown off course, […]

Pentagon: Chinese Spy Balloon Changes Course

The Chinese spy balloon over the United States has changed course and is now floating eastward about 60,000 feet above the central part of country, the Pentagon said Friday, adding that the U.S. rejected China’s claims that it was not being used for surveillance.

After Chinese balloon enters US airspace, Biden secretary of state postpones trip to China

Post Content U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to China following the controversy over a Chinese surveillance balloon detected over the northern United States. Senior State Department officials said Friday that Blinken’s trip, which was never formally announced, has been indefinitely postponed and that the presence of a Chinese surveillance balloon […]

CIA Chief Warns of China’s ‘Serious’ Intent to Invade Taiwan by 2027

Read More The United States is aware “as a matter of intelligence” that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has ordered his military to be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027, CIA Director William Burns said on Thursday. Burns said that Xi’s order to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military may not represent his timeline for the […]