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25 May 2013
                       
 
 
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27 Feb 2013
 
 
The SADC Electoral Advisory Council`s support to democratic elections needs to be improved
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Overall, there has been some progress in the strengthening of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) institutional capacities for political governance and the observation of...
 
 
23 Nov 2012
 
SADC 2012 Launch of the Revised SIPO II: New Hopes, old challenges
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The launch of the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) revised Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation (SIPO II) in Arusha, Tanzania has...
 
 
13 Jun 2012
 
Lesotho After May 2012 General Elections: Making the coalition work
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
On Friday 8 June, Thomas Thabane succeeded Pakalitha Mosisili as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, not by winning elections but by building a coalition government with the support of...
 
 
14 Nov 2011
 
Is SADC’s Biased Early Warning System Preventing Early Action over Swaziland?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
As public protests by various formations of the Swaziland Democracy Campaign continue, amid some level of unembellished brutality on the part of the Swazi police services and security apparatus,...
 
 
22 Aug 2011
 
SADC Summits Only for Political Posturing?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) Summit, a bi- annual ritual of high-level diplomacy, recently concluded its 31st ordinary meeting in Angola, amid increasing concerns that the...
 
 
05 Aug 2011
 
South Africa’s Swaziland Bailout – A Political Anti-climax?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
South Africa’s granting of a R2.4 billion loan to help address Swaziland’s liquidity crisis - without explicit political stipulations - has divided public opinion. The Swaziland financial...
 
 
08 Jun 2011
 
A New Approach to Bring Democracy to Swaziland
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Around 3 000 members of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), in collaboration with various civil political organizations, marched to the South African and US embassies in Manzini...
 
 
14 Apr 2011
 
Swaziland Cracks Down on Pro-democracy Demonstrations
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The April 12 anti-monarchy protests in Swaziland, planned to coincide with the date in 1973 when King Sobhuza II unilaterally declared a state of emergency that banned political parties through...
 
 
14 Mar 2011
 
AU Resolution on Cote d’Ivoire Confirms Ouattara’s Victory
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
This week, African leaders convened in Addis Ababa for the African Union`s Peace and Security Council meeting on Cote d’Ivoire. The meeting that took place on March 9-10 discussed the proposals...
 
 
15 Nov 2010
 
Outcomes of the G20 Summit: A Litmus Test for the Future of the G2O and the Search for ‘Seoul mates'
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The recent G20 summit, held in Seoul on 11 and 12 November 2010, took place amid concerns that sharp divisions over currency and trade policies, particularly between China and the US, could...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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