The World's Most Aggressive EV Push Isn't in China | Bloomberg Primer youtu.be/aa2VfXs3qY0?si=wn1O… via @YouTube Ethiopia.
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We have just had Remembrance Day. The British often forget that in the bloody Burma campaign Chinese and Zambian soldiers fought alongside them. I met with Zambian survivors. Here after having overrun a Japanese position.
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What ‘catastrophic’ South Africa local election results mean for ANC aje.news/mvym6q via @AJEnglish It's just that the ability to make predictions in SA politics has suddenly disappeared.
Things are looking up for Zambia but the cloud of controversy over a post-election clampdown still sits heavily over Hakainde Hichilema’s government bloomberg.com/news/newslette… It seems very much that HH just wants to ride out the storm while pointing to his economic management.
facebook.com/reel/4491019424… The ZiG continues its slidein confidence. No one really wants to use it. The aim should be for a national economy. That's different from prioritising a national currency.
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WATCH LIVE: Mnangagwa Asks Chiwenga To Leave Zimbabwe For 12 Days youtube.com/live/hNIe5M9hm2o… via @YouTube The tussle between the Big Two continues. As if physical absence halts manoeuvring in any real way.
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Botswana to double De Beers holding to 30% ft.com/content/5ac882f9-8dba… via @ft Although thiss is exactly the moment that natural diamonds are losing market value. But this is also a longterm sovereignty issue.
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DA emerges as largest party in five Gauteng hubs, but ActionSA holds the key dailymaverick.co.za/article/… ActionSA beomes Kingmaker, but I see very little real capacity anywhere in ActionSA. SA faces some bumbling for some time.
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The Nobel peace prize has come home, says SA’s latest laureate, Navi Pillay dailymaverick.co.za/article/… A proud track record for SA but there could be no other candidates from today's political leadership.
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nitter.gq/business/status/211978… A divorce? Well it would simply give the DA crowing rights. A tactical misstep that could turn into tactical farce.
South Africa’s biggest political party will consider whether to end its national coalition with its main rival after suffering its worst electoral performance yet bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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ua.news/en/dovkolo-svitu/zam… HH still deepens the fiscal discipline. He will ride out the storm of criticism about gone-walkabout democracy. But he doesn't have to. He could EASILY give the oposition space. They woldn't know what to do with it or dispute fiscal discipline.
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pmn.co.nz/read/sports/manu-s… More on the Samoa win against Zimbabwe and the preparations - AND the longterm ambitions. There is a plan beyond one tournament.
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theguardian.com/news/2026/no… But the question is not that we have had 80 years since Manchester - What happens with and i and to Africa in the next 80 years?
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theguardian.com/world/2026/n… But he cannot be all thins to all people... Or will this become 'Anyone but Netanyahu' as the face of Israeli politics.
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SACP’s strong showing signals end of the Tripartite Alliance dailymaverick.co.za/article/… If the SACP has broken with the ANC who anymore represents the traditional left within the ANC? Neither technocratic nor working class - a vaccuum of a party?
Herman Mashaba: ‘Very very slim’ chance of coalitions with the DA dailymaverick.co.za/article/… Brave and indeed obdurate words on Day One of the 14 day perios in which to form coalitions. In this case, Mashaba's quarrel is a personal one with Zille. He used in fact to be a DA member.
diggers.news/courts/2026/11/… Every procedural objection will now be wheeled out, one by one, hearing by hearing.
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Zimbabwe's Sables lose 43–7 to Samoa in Wakefield. Support the boys in London next week as they take on Uruguay in a sold-out game. share.google/iY5O6jw4OszJPt8… A lot of All Blacks influence in Samoa, not just players but methodologies. You can't play like a high school team.
South Africa’s Politics May Never Be the Same Again nytimes.com/2026/11/08/world… Just another party now. Can there be a come back? Not if you're not in power anymore. There will be no base for a come back. And huge numbers will now simply desert the party.
theguardian.com/world/2026/n… Basically, to make it more 'fair' they have made it too complex. They may simply have to re-run the elction.
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