The following speech was delivered by Dr Philani Mthembu, Executive Director, Institute for Global Dialogue, University of South Africa (UNISA), at the Second South Africa-China Dialogue 2018: 20 Years of South Africa-China Engagements – Past, Present & Future on 8… Continue Reading
By Lesotho journalist Pascalinah Kabi, first published in The Nation on 7 December 2018. Prime Minister Dr Thomas Motsoahae Thabane has disowned controversial Chinese businessman Yan Xie as his trade advisor amid allegations that the latter has been handsomely rewarded… Continue Reading
By Ugandan journalist Christopher Kiwawulo, first published in New Vision. Several Chinese investors have lost billions of shillings in well planned dubious moves orchestrated by well connected crafty Ugandan mafias, New Vision has established. In some of the cases, the mafias… Continue Reading
Wits University and the Africa-China Reporting Project invite you to: Belt & Road Conference 23 November 2018, 08:30-14:00 including lunch Exam Hall at Linder Auditorium, Wits Education Campus, 27 St Andrews Road, Parktown Parking is available throughout the Education Campus. Please… Continue Reading
The Africa-China Journalists Forum & Photo Exhibition took place at Wits University on 1 November. The Photo Exhibition featured 20 images taken by 14 photographers; at the Forum Justin Hui, Hong Kong-based photographer and architect, led a discussion of all… Continue Reading
This post is by Kimon de Greef, freelance journalist and author of the new book Poacher. Confessions from the Abalone Underworld (2018). See an extract of the book here. Kimon will be appearing at the Africa-China Journalists Forum this week… Continue Reading
A Casualty of Power by Mukuka Chipanta (Weaver Press, October 2016) is a fast-paced contemporary fictional tale about a young man, Hamoonga Moya, who grows up in a small Zambian copper mining town, Kitwe. He leaves behind his familiar surroundings in pursuit… Continue Reading
The Africa-China Reporting Project presents: Film screening of GUANGZHOU DREAM FACTORY and Q&A with director Christiane Badgley in conversation with Cobus van Staden Friday 2 November 2018, 16:30 – 18:30 eMakhaya Theatre, University Corner Building, 19th floor University of the Witwatersrand,… Continue Reading
Poacher. Confessions from the Abalone Underworld by Kimon de Greef and Shuhood Abader (Kwela, September 2018) is an unprecedented inside view of South Africa’s illicit abalone trade, a lawless underwater treasure hunt for a marine snail prized as a delicacy in… Continue Reading
By Ugandan journalist Frederic Musisi, first published in Daily Monitor on 5 September. If you had been given a decade to ponder, you would never have imagined that Kapeeka in Nakaseke District, about 63km from the capital Kampala, would emerge from shadows… Continue Reading