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Technology sector
China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
...They order government agencies and party organs above the township level to include criteria requiring “safe and reliable” processors and operating systems when making purchases....
March 24, 2024
Lex Greensill
Lex Greensill’s family backs sustainable coconut waste start-up
...While the company is registered in Jersey, its main operations are in Kenya, where it says “teams of people in villages and townships” gather up the husks of discarded coconuts that Panthera uses....
August 25, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
South Africa
South Africa’s infrastructure crisis deepens as Johannesburg taps run dry
...Residents of the Alexandra township have endured erratic supplies for weeks. “There’s really nothing we can do about it....
March 15, 2024
Visual Arts
Hampi Art Labs — forged from a blend of heritage and steel
...The art centre stands at the gateway of a sprawling model township built for steelworks employees....
March 12, 2024
South Africa
Ramaphosa kicks off campaign as South African voters lose faith in ANC
...The South African president went door-to-door in Meadowlands, a suburb of Johannesburg’s largest township, officially to encourage voters to register ahead of next year’s contest....
November 30, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Mike Makhalemele & Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi: The Bull and the Lion — a rhythmic ode to Soweto
...Makhalemele’s The Peacemaker is a conscious nod to his friend’s Yakhal’ Inkomo, with township rhythms from Sipho Gumede on bass and jaunty electric keyboards from Jabu Nkosi....
December 1, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
African politics
South African election turns populist as parties play anti-foreigner card
...Xenophobia has been a persistent issue in townships where foreign nationals from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere have been scapegoated for chronic unemployment, now at...
March 31, 2024
The Big Read
The young South Africans rethinking Nelson Mandela’s legacy
...Instead, he says, most Black people remain trapped in poor townships — the dumping grounds of the apartheid system — with a substandard education and few job prospects....
April 24, 2024
InterviewMusic
Cellist Abel Selaocoe: ‘What I love is being able to tell a good story’
...It turned out to be Selaocoe’s ticket out of the township....
November 8, 2023
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
How Britain’s political elite broke the development bargain
...Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP who runs Shadow World Investigations, says: “In South Africa, in a township, people can discuss details of corruption deals at seminar level....
January 25, 2024
David Pilling
The ANC will inevitably fall — just not yet
...In Embalenhle, a township in Mpumalanga province, people stood around an open sewer this week complaining that the ANC-run municipality has never fixed it....
November 30, 2023
News in-depthSouth Africa
South African opposition seeks to build on Cape Town success
...That is despite the fact that the city’s wealth, which makes up 70 per cent of the wider Western Cape area’s relatively prosperous economy, belies a much darker reality of impoverished townships blighted...
January 13, 2024
Joe Biden
Biden joins striking autoworkers on Michigan picket line
...Trump is scheduled to speak on Wednesday at Drake Enterprises, a non-union automotive supplier in Clinton Township, about 25 miles north of Detroit....
September 26, 2023
News in-depthClimate change
Inside the battle to decarbonise the world’s dirtiest refinery
...Residents living near the plant, many in a black township built downwind of the plant during apartheid, complain of health issues related to air quality....
December 10, 2023
US politics & policy
Biden and Trump plan rival Michigan trips in scrap for union votes
...Trump pre-empted the president by earlier announcing that he would hold a rally in Clinton Township, north of Detroit, this week, in a bid by the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to regain traction...
September 26, 2023
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
War in Ukraine
Ukraine claims Russian drones crashed on Romanian territory
...Tudor Cernega, mayor of the Romanian township of Ceatalchioi, said there were “heavy” bombardments reported in the Izmail area, adding: “But regarding a drone in Romania — no, no, no....
September 4, 2023
News in-depthChinese society
China’s dreamers and dropouts ‘lie flat’ in Dali
...Others come to Dali in search of new ideas. Yang Kai, a friend of Gao’s, is from Maotai township, the town where China’s famous liquor is made....
December 27, 2023
FT Books Essay
The long shadow of apartheid
...enraged township radicals — intensified....
April 5, 2023
ReviewMusic
Jazz musicians give black lives a voice at Ronnie Scott’s
...The complex “Sa Nou Yé” moved smoothly from French urban hip-hop to township groove, and segued into “Sanga Bô”, a feature for percussionist Sonny Troupé to rouse the crowd....
May 30, 2023
FT Magazine
Ernest Cole’s photographs of 1960s South Africa during apartheid
...Ernest Cole was born in 1940, in Eersterust, a township near Pretoria, and went on to become South Africa’s first black freelance photographer and one of the great chroniclers of the black experience during...
March 11, 2023
Transcript
The gangs risking their lives for copper in South Africa
...But you can kind of draw a line from his personal choices all the way through global crime syndicates in places way beyond the township borders against (inaudible) in Johannesburg....
June 2, 2023
News in-depthSouth Africa
South African businesses turn to diesel and solar panels as Eskom crisis deepens
...Township businesses such as Soweto Creamery create jobs in high-unemployment areas, and help to bridge a post-apartheid economic divide....
January 19, 2023
FT Magazine
The harrowing true story of a high-stakes heist gone wrong
...On the porch of a rundown breezeblock home in Johannesburg’s largest township, the three men pulled on their disguise of municipal workers’ coveralls, then shared a smoke....
May 11, 2023
African politics
ANC grassroots back South Africa’s Ramaphosa — for now
...On the streets where Cyril Ramaphosa grew up in Johannesburg’s largest township, Edward Twala voices his support for the South African president, under fire over a mysterious theft of cash from his private...
December 8, 2022
Lunch with the FT
Rugby superstar Siya Kolisi: ‘I’ve got no ego at all’
...He is the township boy who became the first black captain of a team long synonymous with Afrikanerdom....
February 3, 2023

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