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The next step in SASCOC's process is appointing a task team to investigate CSA's administrative and financial affairs. SASCOC hoped to work with the Cricket South Africa Members' Council - the body made up of the 14 provincial presidents who have the highest decision-making powers in CSA - to nominate the members of the task team but the Members' Council did not meet with SASCOC on Friday. Instead, the CSA Board and Members' Council is meeting this weekend while SASCOC appears likely to be deciding on the task team on its own. … [Read more...] about South Africa Olympics body to ICC: Our intervention is not government interference

Mandela has been widely hailed across South Africa as a symbol of peace who led the country out of apartheid in the early 1990s. Often described as the "Father of the Nation," Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside former leader Frederik Wilem de Klerk in 1993 for their work in creating a new democratic South Africa. … [Read more...] about South Africans Blast Trump After Report U.S. President Disparaged Nelson Mandela: ‘He Was No Leader’

Prigozhin’s gambit is part of a century-long Russian battle for influence in Africa, even if its “active measures” there haven’t always worked to its advantage. As historian Christopher Andrew and former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin have noted, all the way back in 1900, Iskra, Lenin’s revolutionary communist newspaper, mentioned South Africa as a prime target for a workers’ revolt owing to its relative industrialization. Expectations were dashed.  In the 1930s, Black Communist delegates who had come to Moscow to study at Comintern-run schools complained that, despite a shared ideology, the Soviet Union was awash with racism. According to Andrew and Mitrokhin, several of these students, including Jomo Kenyatta, later the first indigenous leader of Kenya, even signed a letter “complaining of the ‘derogatory portrayal of Negroes in the cultural institutions of the Soviet Union’ as ‘real monkeys.’” … [Read more...] about Russia Is Using Undercover Racists to Exploit Africa’s Anti-Racist Political Revolt

Great to welcome you to HQ, @AmbMohamedHagi! The opening ceremony for your office Sept. 9 is a strong step forward in #Taiwan-#Somaliland ties. As like-minded partners, we'll promote peace, prosperity & safeguard our democratic ways of life as per the #TaiwanModel. JW pic.twitter.com/LEEQbikCXo … [Read more...] about Why China’s Beef With Taiwan Has Switched To The Horn Of Africa

His most important item of luggage was a briefcase, a constant companion. In the bottom of it, disguised by other things, were stacked 14 contracts. He was in Sri Lanka to have them signed. Rushmere was not only armed with his trusty briefcase - he had a story primed, just in case. If asked, he was to mumble his way through a passable Dutch accent and busk for all he was worth. "Tony [Opatha], who picked me up and arranged the ['rebel' Sri Lankan] tour from their side, told me that he was so well known that he'd have to drop me a couple of streets away from my hotel," remembers Rushmere. "He didn't want to be seen because at that stage the tour was very hush-hush. If anyone asked or we got into any difficulties, I was a 'Dutch businessman'. … [Read more...] about When Sri Lanka went to cuckoo land