Kimon de Greef

on October 21, 2017

Kimon de Greef is a freelance journalist from Cape Town, South Africa. Among other issues, he writes about environmental crime, informal trade, immigration, and conflict over natural resources.

De Greef has published features with Al Jazeera, Roads & Kingdoms, Vice, GOOD, Hakai, The Mail & Guardian, and GroundUp News. He also has worked as a criminological consultant, investigating wildlife trafficking and drug markets.

He holds a Master's in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town and is currently writing a book on illicit trade.

The Ayes Have It

By Geremie R. Barmé on October 21, 2017

On April 1, 1969, delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party convened in the Great Hall of the People on the western flank of Tiananmen Square. The hall had been constructed as one of the Ten Grand Edifices 十大建築 hastily constructed to celebrate the first decade of the People’s Republic of China in 1959. It was used for major meetings of the socialist party-state ever since.