Blogs

This is a sequel to Yavi Madurai’s fortnight blog, The Future is Here: A New World Order has been Set in Motion on Africa’s Soil under the subtitle: BRICS and the AfCFTA Effect.     It was two weeks ago that South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the BRICS Summit…

I have had the privilege of knowing Dr Stavros Nicolaou for a few years now and bear witness to all the work he does for and on behalf of South Africa and Africa, especially in his role as a BRICS Business Council member. The BRICS Business Council is made up…

There has been much ado about the XV BRICS Summit that concluded yesterday a few kilometers up the road from me in Johannesburg, South Africa. Although we have had 14 previous BRICS summits and BRICS has existed for just more than 14 years, nothing has really come out of the…

A meeting that will one day be recorded in history as the day the health and prosperity of African women & girls’ future was forever changed.     On August 9, 1956, four South African women catalysed women’s liberation on the African continent, leading a march of 20 000 multiracial women…

Nine months before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was birthed, the Pan African Women’s Organisation (PAWO) was born on July 31, 1962, to bring together African women’s organizations on a platform for joint action to promote human rights and gender equality.     I bore witness to the day…

Beyonce’s ‘girl power anthem’ plays in my earphones, as I write this blog on 11th July 2023, exactly 20 years since The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa was signed. Better known as the Maputo Protocol, the African Union charter…

Adam Alqali blogs about his personal experience traveling across the African continent during Covid-19, highlighting challenges to do with health regulations, visa problems and flight connectivity.   Africa recorded its index case of the dreaded Covid-19 disease in Cairo, Egypt, in February 2020. Although Covid-19-related fatalities on the continent were…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement aims to create the world’s largest free trade area, increasing intra-African trade by between US$50 billion to US$70 billion, by 2040.  Likewise, the African Union identifies Agenda 2063’s Goal 17 (full gender equality in all spheres of life) as a priority goal.…