WE CAN’T RECYCLE OUR WAY OUT OF PLASTIC POLLUTION
Across Mamelodi, the scene tends to be familiar. The rain stops. The flooding begins. Plastic bottles, takeaway containers and shopping bags are swept through streets and into stormwater drains. Along riverbanks, wrappers cling to reeds. What does not get trapped eventually moves downstream, carrying a familiar message to the ocean: South Africa has a plastic […]
SARW TO LAUNCH ONE VOICE, ONE STRATEGY: A CONTINENTAL BLUEPRINT FOR AFRICAN STRATEGIC MINERALS, JOINT INDUSTRIAL POLICIES, AND DIPLOMACY
PRESS RELEASE SARW to Launch One Voice, One Strategy: A Continental Blueprint for African Strategic Minerals, Joint Industrial Policies, and Diplomacy Pretoria, South Africa, 3 September 2026: The Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) will launch One Voice, One Strategy: A Continental Blueprint for African Strategic Minerals, Joint Industrial Policies, and Diplomacy on Wednesday, 9 September […]
DISSECTING THE HEART OF A SOULLESS SOCIETY : JACKIE PHAMOTSE AND THE BIG 5 CARTEL
By Sandile Memela DISSECTING THE HEART OF A SOULLESS SOCIETY : JACKIE PHAMOTSE AND THE BIG 5 CARTEL South Africa has become a crime scene. Not a country with crime, but a crime scene that happens to be a country. That is the uncomfortable diagnosis that author and criminologist Jackie Phamotse forces us to confront. […]
CHINA’S DIPLOMACY AND TRADE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2026: MARKET ACCESS TO STRATEGIC ECONOMIC POWER
China’s Diplomacy and Trade in the first half of 2026: Market access to strategic economic power Author: Thato Mazwe Madibo In the first half of 2026, China’s economic foreign policy has indicated that for Beijing, diplomacy and trade relations are not distinct policy areas. Trade agreements, tariff concessions, investment promotion, supply chain linkages, internationalisation of […]