‘Torture isn’t new to Palestinians’: How Israel learned from colonialism | Israel-Palestine conflict

‘Torture isn’t new to Palestinians’: How Israel learned from colonialism | Israel-Palestine conflict

Warning: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault that some readers will find disturbing. A companion essay to Al Jazeera’s Bodies of Evidence: Israel’s Darkest Weapon, directed and executive produced by Awad Joumaa. He was in the next room. The walls were thin. The door between the rooms was open. He could hear everything. In…

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SA’s R142bn connectivity plan: The real question isn’t funding; it’s execution

SA’s R142bn connectivity plan: The real question isn’t funding; it’s execution

Mooketsi Mocumi, strategic communications and corporate affairs adviser. South Africa now has something the telecommunications sector has long called for: a costed, structured roadmap to achieve universal, meaningful connectivity. The proposed investment of roughly R142 billion to deliver 100Mbps broadband to all households by 2035 is ambitious, necessary and overdue. But the most important question…

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Mining’s problem isn’t output, it’s execution

Mining’s problem isn’t output, it’s execution

South African mining doesn’t lack strategy or plans. In many operations, it doesn’t even lack demand. What it lacks, increasingly, is consistent execution. That was the clearest thread to emerge from a recent Workday and TechCentral roundtable event with mining leaders across the C-suite. With gold and PGMs in a strong pricing cycle, the conversation…

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Africa: China in Africa – Investment and Trade Work Well When There’s Strong Oversight, and Badly When There Isn’t

Africa: China in Africa – Investment and Trade Work Well When There’s Strong Oversight, and Badly When There Isn’t

China’s economic footprint in Africa has grown fast over the last two decades. Across the continent, Chinese-backed mines, oilfields, railways and industrial zones have gone from being ambitious projects to central pillars of national development plans. This has been made possible by over US$181 billion in infrastructure loans and about US$50 billion in foreign direct…

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