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WTO: Pascal Lamy: Address by the World Trade Organisation Director-General, on how Africa is the growth continent for the 21st century, University of Nairobi, Kenya (22/05/2013)

Topics

Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me to address you this morning at the University of Nairobi. This institution is a fundamental cornerstone of one of Kenya’s greatest assets: the...

SA needs qualitatively different political, economic system

POLITICAL INSIGHT

In the months leading up to the election of Jacob Zuma as head of state in 2009, there was a lot of concern about his ability to govern a modern economy and state. After his inauguration in May...

Statement by the International Trade Union Confederation, on newly launched official news site “Equal Times” (18/09/2012)

STATEMENT

a new ITUC-supported internet platform for news, opinion, investigative reports and activism, is officially launched . With a Brussels-based editorial team and more than 50 journalists around the...

SA: Blade Nzimande: Address by the South African Communist Party General Secretary, to the Congress of South African Trade Unions' 11th National Congress, Gallagher Estate, Midrand (17/09/2012)

SPEECH

Defend the gains of the working class Take responsibility for the national democratic revolution On behalf of the SACP, I bring you revolutionary greetings from our Party, which has just emerged...

UN: Statement by the United Nations, highlighting the role of media in empowering the world's indigenous people (09/08/2012)

STATEMENT

Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, United Nations senior officials today highlighted the key role played by the media in empowering indigenous people, stressing that...

What Europe can learn from the South (June 2012)

LABOUR

After having caused a massive increase in inequality throughout the world, which led to the build-up of politely called “imbalances” and which fireballed into a financial, then economic,...

Civil Society at the UN climate change conference: African Activism at COP17

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In early December 2011, Durban, South Africa hosted the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17), otherwise known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The conference was well...

Cosatu: Submission by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, to the Press Freedom Commission (20/01/2012)

Statements

Introduction
1. COSATU is appreciative of the opportunity to participate in the public hearings of the Press Freedom Commission (PFC) on the regulation of print media in South Africa....

Armed and Dangerous

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

People who possess firearms in South Africa can generally be separated into three categories. The first group consists of individuals in possession of duly registered firearms. The next group is of...

The role of mass media in armed conflict: A Libyan case study

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

“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...

Mainstream Media’s Coverage of Libya Disturbing

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

The mainstream media’s conspicuous silence about the racially motivated human rights abuses perpetrated against black Libyans and immigrants, by the NATO-backed Transitional National Council...

Parliamentary statement, on the transformation indaba (23/09/2011)

Statements

The Parliamentary Indaba held on 22 and 23 September 2011 in Parliament attended by industry associations, lobby groups, small commercial and community media representatives, organs of state...

YCLSA: Statement by Gugu Ndima, Young Communist League spokesperson, on the debate over “decent jobs” (26/01/2011)

Statements

The Young Communist League of South Africa (uFasimba) notes the ongoing debate on Decent jobs versus the provision of any kind of job by government. The fact that the debate has occupied space...

Gender, journalism and democracy in Southern Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Media provide a glimpse of the level of development that any country enjoys. Media freedom is arguably positively correlated to development levels. Female media practitioners play pivotal roles in...

Cosatu: Statement by Patrick Craven, Congress of South African Trade Unions spokesperson, on the political situation after the10th Cosatu National Congress (01/12/2009)

Statements

The COSATU Central Executive Committee meeting, on 23-24 November - two months after the highly successful tenth COSATU National Congress - gave the CEC the opportunity, as the national...

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