Zoom seminar on Thandika Mkandawire

On Thursday 5 March 2020, the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) and CACS hosted a seminar entitled ‘The state of Zambian democracy and China-Zambina relations’. The seminar was led by Dr Emmanuel Matambo, a senior CACS researcher. About Emmanuel Matambo Dr Emmanuel Matambo started his tertiary education at Saint Joseph’s Theological Institute in Hilton,…

On 18 and 19 September, the UJCI and the China-Africa Joint Research and Exchange Program held a two-day conference on ‘Understanding Africa-China Industrial and Infrastructural Cooperation: Drivers and Prospects’. The speakers, presenters and discussants included academics and other analysts as well as policy-malers and planners form Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and the…

[divider_flat]On Thursday 16 May 2019, the Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS) hosted a seminar on South Africa and China at the UN Security Council. The speakers were Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, former South African Ambassador to the United States; Advocate Doctor Mashabane, Chief Director: United Nations in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO); and…

Exactly a year after its launch, the Centre for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg hosted a public seminar on ‘Russia-Africa Relations in the 21st Century: Renewed Focus and Engagement’, with H.E. Mr Ilya Igorevich Rogachev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to South Africa and Lesotho, as the main speaker. The discussant was Dr…