Author: Ewang Johnson
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announces the appointment of Sandile Dhlomo as Head of Ericsson South Africa, as part of Ericsson West and Southern Africa, led by Majda Lahlou Kassi, effective 01 September 2025. He will also be a member of the Ericsson West and Southern Africa leadership team in Ericsson Europe, Middle East and Africa. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and digital industry and having held several senior roles in the African continent, Sandile has strategic leadership experience in Information and Communications Technology, network consulting, business development, and marketing across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Algeria, Nigeria, Kenya, and…
US indie director Jim Jarmusch won the Golden Lion award for the best film at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday with family saga “Father Mother Sister Brother”. Docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war, took the runner-up Silver Lion. Source link
Sydney Sweeney trained for months, muscled up, and put on 30lb (13.6kg) to play Christy Martin, a real-life champion boxer with a dramatic personal story. She wears a dark wig and brown contact lenses. And yet it is impossible to forget that she is Sydney Sweeney in the cliché-ridden biopic Christy, as our hyperawareness of her off-screen image distracts us from what’s going on in the film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week.A contradiction at the heart of Christy is that Sweeney is the main reason anyone is paying attention to the project, but her own…
Standard Bank, the biggest bank in Africa by assets, will host the fifth edition of its seminal Climate Summit. The Summit, which will be held in Johannesburg on 9 September, is one of the cornerstones of Standard Bank’s sustainability strategy. This year’s Summit will focus on climate adaptation and resilience under the theme of energy, infrastructure and resilience. “We have all observed energy challenges and extreme climate events in recent years. This year we are building on the energy transition conversation that we started with the Climate Summit four years ago by bringing in a focus on resilience – both…
Across Africa, leaders come and go. Elections bring new faces, fresh slogans, and promises of renewal. Yet beneath the campaigns and ceremonies lies the true measure of whether a nation rises or falters: the strength of its institutions. When institutions are weak, politics becomes personal. Power concentrates in individuals rather than systems. Courts bend under pressure. Parliaments become rubber stamps. Civil services run on patronage instead of principle. In such an environment, strongmen thrive. Not because they are visionary, but because the absence of guardrails leaves room for one person to dominate. We have seen this pattern repeat. Leaders who…
The Normandy beach town of Deauville is welcoming Hollywood heavyweights Kristen Stewart, Pamela Anderson and Kim Novak alongside indie talents at this year’s American Film Festival. FRANCE 24’s Genie Godula brings us the highlights of the opening weekend, as Michael Angelo Covino’s “Splitsville” kicks off proceedings, starring Dakota Johnson and Kyle Marvin. We also hear more about Kristen Stewart’s and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial débuts and the retrospectives providing insight into American film icons. Plus tributes pour in from the world of music, fashion and movies following the death of designer Giorgio Armani. Source link
Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images10. Ballet students, Tembisa, South Africa A photo of two 5-year-old ballet students, Philasande Ngcobo and Yamihle Gwababa, posing in July outside a dance academy in Tembisa, South Africa, was powerful and touching. The stark contrast between parched ground, chiselled shadow and delicate dresses recalls the rigorous aesthetic angularities of Degas’s countless scenes of dancers in rehearsal. Keeping our eye fixed on the gestural gravity of his ballerinas, Degas often abstracted the dancing studios to swathes of blank colour, investing his paintings, like the photo from outside Johannesburg, with a timeless dimension.Getty Images11. Starving child, Gaza CityA sequence of devastating images…
World Entrepreneur Day, celebrated every 21st of August, highlights the global impact of entrepreneurs. In Africa alone, there are over 245 million businesses, many of which enrich communities far beyond their borders. Ramatallahi Abubakar, a Nigerian-born fashion designer who now lives in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK, is among one of them. With a mission to create beautiful outfits and make women feel confident through what they wear, the mother of one decided to become an entrepreneur and founded Ramatporsche Design. “I realised early on that fashion was my calling — it allows me to tell stories through fabric,” Ramatallahi says. “I…
Tanzania’s Foreign Minister begins his visit to the United Kingdom on the 8th September. The aim is to deepen trade and diplomatic ties as the East African nation embarks on its goal of achieving a $20 trillion economy by 2050. The scale of this ambition is clear. But so too is our strategy: economic diplomacy. Tanzania’s foreign policy is now firmly focused on mobilising investment, expanding trade, adopting technology, and creating jobs. In this journey, the United Kingdom remains one of our closest partners. Our relationship with the UK spans more than 60 years since independence. It is a bond anchored in Commonwealth membership,…
In this episode of arts24, we begin at the Venice Film Festival, where a harrowing film about a five-year-old girl killed during an Israeli assault on Gaza, entitled “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, received a 23-minute standing ovation. Directed by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania and executive produced by Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and others, the film uses real phone recordings to reconstruct the child’s final moments, leaving audiences visibly shaken and critics calling it the most urgent entry of the festival. Source link