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South Africa's sports lack progress in the post apartheid era

Nearly 25 years have passed since South Africa returned to the international playing field, but issues as to why they were banned in the first place, remain.

“As much as we are the political majority in South Africa, we are the economic minority,” Arizona State University’s South African Humphrey Fellow Sebenzile Nkambule said. “The 5 percent white folk in the country dominate the majority of the economy. They can afford the best nutrition, access to the best facilities, kids can get access to the top cultures. They have access to that preparation ahead of black players.”

Nkambule is a media professional based in South Africa who also leads research projects for Oxford University Press Southern Africa’s marketing team.

The conflict between the race and South African sports is a tumultuous one. Nonetheless, it is a conflict that changed the country’s entire sporting dynamic.

“The processes to change the face of sport over the past 20 years have been largely ineffective,” Willie Basson, a sports ministry panel member who oversees racial change, told The Guardian.

To understand why this situation continues to defy efforts to eradicate it, one must understand the country’s history.

After decades of being banned from international sport, South Africa played host to host a major sporting event: the Rugby World Cup.

When the South African Springboks won the World Cup at home, South African President, Nelson Mandela, walked onto the field to present the Webb Ellis Cup to the team’s captain, François Pienaar.

And in that moment, after decades of racial segregation, thousands of people in Ellis Park rose to their feet and started to chant.

“Nelson, Nelson, Nelson.”

The man who was once a political prisoner and hated by many was being cheered for changing a racist climate and uniting the country through sport. With the display of admiration for the nation’s first black president, South Afr

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Celebrating our network members&#; successes

Chileshe Kapwepwe is the first female Secretary General of COMESA!

18 July , Lusaka, Zambia

We congratulate Ms. Chileshe Kapwepwe on her appointment as the first female Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) on the 18 July The Women in Finance Network, New Faces New Voices (NFNV) is proud to have this African leader as part of the movement to empower women on the African continent. Ms. Kapwepwe is a dedicated member of our female leaders in the Zambia chapter of NFNV and the Trust values her leadership contributions.

Leah Diana Mitaba wins the Women in Business Awards !

18 July , Lusaka, Zambia

The Trust&#;s New Faces New Voices recognises its Zambian chapter member, Leah Diana Mitaba on being the top 10 finalist for the Empretec Women in Business Award during a colourful event that took place on 18 July, in Lusaka, Zambia. The United Nations conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) awarded Women in Business during this event which was jointly organised by UN Women and the Commonwealth Women Business Forum. The prestigious award seeks to celebrate exceptional businesswomen and is granted to women-owned businesses for the promotion of entrepreneurship in 40 developing countries for their outstanding achievements in running micro and small businesses. Leah is a recent graduate of the Women Creating Wealth programme and her business venture is called Butterfly Initiatives, a cooperative which produces fruits and vegetable. These awards seek to celebrate businesswomen who are excelling in their area of specialization and have been beneficiaries of UNCTAD’s global entrepreneurship training network. The winners of the award will be announced on the 25 of October, at the World Investment Forum, taking place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. We wish Leah al

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Building Images: exploring 21st century Sino-African dynamics through cultural exchange and translation

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The rapid expansion in Chinese involvement in Africa in the 21st century has been accompanied by conflicting discourses about what that interest means, both for Africa and for the West. While Chinese and African leaders have consistently promoted the idea of a partnership based on mutual benefit, many journalists and the majority of Western leaders have sounded cautionary notes of alarm, some even going so far as to label China a 'rogue donor'. Academic research has sought to interrogate some of the myths that have sprung up around Sino-African co-operation, and has taken the form primarily of case studies of Chinese trade, development and aid in selected African countries, with some more recent studies also focussing on the expansion of China's 'soft power'. Within all these discussions, one essential aspect of Sino-African interaction has gone largely unstudied: issues of translation, both in the narrower sense of how Chinese and African people communicate and in the broader, metaphorical sense of how African culture is 'translated' for the Chinese, and vice versa, have received little or no critical attention. Yet such translations form a critical part of all co-operation, and 'translations' of culture in the broader sense are becoming increasingly prominent in the agendas of the political leaders: cultural exchanges and 'cultures-in-focus' events now feature strongly in official programmes of Sino-African co-operation. This project aims to address this gap, seeking to identify the dominant images of Africa that are being 'translated' for the Chinese and vice versa, and to explore questions of agency in the translation process (who decides what is to be translated, for whom, and for what reasons).

In light of the incredible size, complexity and diversity of both China and Africa, this project can only provide indicative, rat

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