Orapa, Botswana – It is a year since Motshwegwa Rakhudu lost his job after 14 years working as an installer at Debswana diamond mining operations in northern Botswana. He says he had been on rolling three-year renewable contracts with Enabler Hires (Pty) Ltd, and expected the arrangement would continue through to 2027. Instead, he was retrenched and made redundant without warning. “The shock was too much,” Rakhudu, (not...

The United States has designated Chinese corporate giants Alibaba, BYD and Baidu as companies that support China’s military, expanding its blacklist to some of the country’s best-known commercial brands. The Pentagon included the firms in an update on Monday that is likely to complicate the fragile detente between Washington and Beijing after years of rocky relations. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list China’s embassy in Washington,...