South Africa’s GDP has taken a hit, shrinking by 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022. Analysts had predicted a decline of just 0.4%. And they’re blaming the record blackouts for taking a significant toll on productivity. What do you think of this story?
Charles Gordon was killed by Sudanese forces in January 1885Award-winning Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela has retold the story of a British army general killed by the troops of the Mahdi - a religious leader in Sudan in the late 19th Century - in her new novel, River Spirit.
“The only accurate thing was the weapons apparently... It wasn’t even filmed in Khartoum,” she told the“So I wanted to retell the story and make it from a Sudanese point of view and how they saw events unfolding.” For much of the 19th Century it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire and then in the early to mid 20th Century it was under joint British-Egyptian rule, before becoming independent in 1956.
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