[Police Brutality\Africa]
Campbell: “Police use of excessive force is an old song in Africa, and reform is difficult. Police forces tend to have been established by the former colonial powers, and they are national—a gendarmerie—rather than local”
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President Cyril Ramaphosa
Black Lives Matter Shines Light on Police Brutality in Africa
South Africa’s President: We Should Use COVID-19 To Strengthen Economic Inclusion
[South Africa\COVID-19]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations should be “enhanced” as part of a push to build a more inclusive economy in the wake of the country’s coronavirus crisis.
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SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TRAVELS TO BRAZIL FOR 11TH BRICS SUMMIT
[Africa News\South Africa]
BRICS is an association of five major emerging countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which together represent about 42% of the global population, 23% of GDP, 30% of the territory and 18% of the global trade.
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SOUTH AFRICA’S TRANSPORT MINISTER: WE NEED TO UPGRADE TRAIN AND MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE TO INCREASE INTRA-AFRICAN TRADE
[African News\South Africa]
The aim of the Free Trade Area is to promote economic integration and liberalize African markets. For this to happen we need to connect out people in roads, rail and water and airports.
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SOUTH AFRICA PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA SPEAKS WITH FORMER NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OBASANJO ABOUT XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA
[Africa News\South Africa]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa received former President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for a courtesy call yesterday, Thursday 26 September 2019–during which they spoke about the xenophobic violence, against African immigrants, that have been occurring inside South Africa.
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