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SA President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a high-level meeting on industrialisation and agricultural modernisation, a sideline for the China Africa Forum, at the National Convention Center in Beijing, China, in September 2024

China is funding African farmers but not food processing and storage: why it’s a problem

China has invested billions of dollars in African agriculture over the past two decades – but is it investing in the right places?

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  • Adrino Mazenda
The anti-immigrant protest movement argues that it is responding to rising unemployment, deteriorating public services and growing insecurity. File photo

Blaming migrants ignores the real causes of SA’s economic crisis

South Africa is in the midst of its most significant anti-immigrant mobilisation in years.

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Over the past two decades, the number of older persons in Botswana aged 60+ has doubled to about 279,111 people (roughly 8% of the population).

Pensions for Botswana’s elderly are growing, but care services are lacking

Study tracks how government has funded elder care over past 20 years

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South Africa would seem like the perfect place for widespread uptake of solar energy.

South Africans want solar power but they worry panels will be stolen: study

South Africa would seem like the perfect place for widespread uptake of solar energy, write Uzziah Mutumbi, Gladman Thondhlana and Sheunesu Ruwanza.

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