Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela, Imperialism, and the Global Struggle for Sovereignty
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa September 8, 2025, marks not only a commemorative moment for progressive forces across the Global South but also a profound reflection on the unfinished struggle against imperialism. Latin America, the Caribbean,…
14 September 2025
Orange Botswana Chief Executive, Mr. Seabelo Pilane
Empowering Financial Dreams: A Path to Financial Inclusion in Botswana
By Seabelo Pilane, CEO of Orange Money In the pursuit of national progress, financial inclusion is not just a goal; it is a necessity. For Botswana to realize its full economic potential, every citizen must…
10 September 2025
Current world map: courtesy of Reddit Maps
AFRICA MAP SIZE MYTH
By Fortune Madondo A Geographical Lie The current standard world map is wildly misleading, a tool of miseducation, and perpetuates a geographical lie. And mostly Mother Africa (the Continent of Africa) is the victim, presented…
10 September 2025
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Tianjin: China, Russia, and India Redraw the Map of a Post-Imperialist World
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa Western headlines have tried to reduce the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin to a spectacle of handshakes, smiles, and photographs. To them, the meeting of China’s President Xi Jinping,…
9 September 2025
TICAD9 and the Mirage of Japanese Partnership: Why Africa’s Future Lies with China, Not Neo-Imperialism
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), once promoted as a vehicle for deepening Africa–Japan relations, has increasingly revealed itself as a hollow theatre of neo-imperial gestures. The Ninth Tokyo…
9 September 2025
BCP Kgalagadi South Parliamentary candidate in the upcoming by-election, Tshepang David Brooks
BCP Endorses Tshepang Brooks for Kgalagadi South By-Election
Gaborone, Botswana — 8 September 2025 The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has officially named Tshepang David Brooks as its candidate for the upcoming Kgalagadi South parliamentary by-election, following a unanimous endorsement by the party’s Central…
8 September 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping and foreign leaders walk to Tian'anmen Rostrum ahead of a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)
Xi Jinping — proponent of a more just world order
BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — At Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, Chinese President Xi Jinping, together with world leaders, attended on Wednesday morning a grand military parade honoring both China’s victory and the collective triumph of nations…
8 September 2025
A view of Shannan, southwest China's Xizang autonomous region. (Photo by Tsering Lumpur)
Exploring cultural integration at the source of Tibetan civilization in Shannan
By Zhao Juecheng, Fan Lingzhi, Global Times; Zhang Bolan, Xian Gan, People’s Daily A 17-hour flight from Athens, Greece, to Lhasa in China’s Xizang autonomous region- including a layover in Beijing – bridges five time…
5 September 2025
Zim-China Friendship Shines Bright: A Revolutionary Bond Rekindled at WWII 80th Anniversary Celebrations
By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa History is not just a record of the past; it is a weapon for the present and the future. On the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War…
3 September 2025
New Swedish deputy envoy: “Parliaments are the beating hearts of democracy”
New Swedish deputy envoy: “Parliaments are the beating hearts of democracy”
By Moses Magadza Windhoek – The newly appointed Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria, Mr. Kristian Olsson Selerud, has hailed parliaments within the SADC region as the…
3 September 2025