Allen Ambor went from being a waiter to founding the first Spur in 1967, and helping it grow it into a JSE-listed empire of ...

During the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Empire profited heavily from exporting opium from colonial India to China, ...

Former ANC policy guru Joel Netshitenzhe has advised that South Africa needs to maintain a “strategic posture” as the balance ...

GHANA - From the rich gold mines that earned Ghana the nickname "Gold Coast," the Ashanti people once built an empire so wealthy that gold became both currency and power.

In the days that preceded March 6, 1957, when the Gold Coast shed its colonial label and stood on the brink of independence, its leaders reached back into West Africa’s deep past to settle on the name ...

Around the year 600 AD, Egypt and North Africa were among the most important provinces of the Byzantine Empire. Egypt remained the empire’s main grain supplier, feeding the enormous population of ...

When Gilly Walters first failed at an attempt to make “Mozart’s favourite dessert” for party guests at her home, she did not give up. Today, Wedgewood is a premium confectionary brand with listings in ...

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, ...

After decades of declining oil production, the US, somewhere around the early 2000s, introduced a new technique to extract oil .

This is a presentation made on Monday at the eThekwini Colloquium on global dynamics.

Western corporations became deeply embedded in the extraction of natural resources across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, ...