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On 13 April 2011, BRIC officially became known as BRICS, when the Republic of South Africa formally joined the bloc of influential emerging-market nations of the People’s Republic of China, the...
Africa has traditionally been characterised by conflict and underdevelopment, and unfortunately when Cold War scrambling subsided to civil conflict and dictatorship rule, development was only...
It seems the idea of a South African high-speed railway is not likely to disappear soon.(2) Initially, the brainchild of former Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe and the 2005 National Transport...
In January 2011, Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma announced that the long-discussed Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between India and the Southern African Customs Union...
On 9 January 2011, the Republic of Sudan went to vote in a landmark referendum that would ultimately result in the landslide decision by a largely Christian South Sudan to secede from their...
In July 1953, the Korean Armistice was signed, effectively ending the three-year war on the peninsula. However, since no peace treaty was ever drawn up, the war between the northern Democratic...