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The year 2012 is a very important one in South Africa and in Africa, as the oldest liberation movement, the African National Congress, has turned 100 years old.
Climate finance practitioners and regulators have urged South African developers of Clean Development Mechanism projects to finalise their applications for registration of such projects with the UN...
Algeria's government on Tuesday authorised the creation of the first new political parties in more than a decade, four months before a parliamentary election when the authorities will be under...
An enormous amount of intellectual energy has gone into the global response to HIV & AIDS over the past 30 years. The results have been visible in local, national, and international spheres at...
This paper discusses the recent death of Kim Jong II that has triggered international speculation with regard to the future of North Korea. Africa is observing the transition period in North Korea,...
he African National Congress, the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, turns 100 years old today!
We have come from all corners of South Africa, Africa and the world, to celebrate...
With the many elections held in 2011, Africa witnessed what one may call a ‘generational progression on democracy’. Ironically, the nominations for the elections at the African Union Commission...
The Arab Spring brought about regime change in three African states – Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Popular uprisings in other states — Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Malawi,...
With the death on 20 October of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya enters a new and precarious phase. This special SAIIA feature addresses a series of inter-related internal, regional, and international...
At the beginning of 2011, 36 states in Africa criminalised sexual orientation, with penalties ranging from fines in Algeria and Kenya, to the death penalty in Sudan and Nigeria. The...
For anyone to fully appreciate Oliver Reginald Tambo’s role in our socio-political make up, one needs to grasp the evolution of the ANC between 1912 and the 1940s when O.R. Tambo entered the...
For anyone to fully appreciate Oliver Reginald Tambo’s role in our socio-political make up, one needs to grasp the evolution of the ANC between 1912 and the 1940s when O.R. Tambo entered...
President Jacob Zuma has been warned that the courts will be used to hold him to the eventual recommendations of the Seriti commission of inquiry into the arms deal. "If he irrationally refuses to...
On the 2nd of October 2011, Egypt’s military ruler Field Marshall Mohammed Hussien Tantawi testified in the trial of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak. In his testimony, Tantawi denied that the...
“From the cowardice which shrinks from new truth, from the laxness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, oh God of truth, deliver us!”(2) When it...