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26 May 2013

24 Apr 2013

How to deal with abscondment – step by step

Most employers will at some stage have to deal with an employee that failed to return to work. This normally happens after a payday, a period of extended sick leave or a shutdown over December. But...

04 Mar 2013

Electoral accountability in Africa: Adding nuance to the debate

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

At the onset of 2013, the occurrence of presidential and parliamentary elections was widespread across the African continent. Indeed, Afrobarometer research suggests that Africans now use the...

14 Nov 2012

IFP: Statement by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Inkatha Freedom Party Leader, nominates Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett for appointment of Justice to the Constitutional Court (14/11/2012)

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It gives me great pleasure to nominate Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett, SC for appointment to the impending vacant position of Justice to the Constitutional Court.

08 Nov 2012

China’s recipe for successful development: Challenging the traditional notions of aid in Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

For the last decade, the Chinese presence in Africa has received international attention and has been tainted by controversy. China’s presence in and economic aid to Africa is, however, not a new...

10 Oct 2012

African space programmes: Political or scientific endeavours?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

This discussion paper seeks to examine the recent development of national space research programmes on the African continent and whether their development is due to political, socio-economic, or...

14 Sep 2012

Hunger and malnutrition in a world with a changing climate

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

According to findings in the Worldwatch Institute’s ‘State of the World 2012’ report, “extreme weather events linked to global climate change - such as heat waves, droughts and floods -...

28 Mar 2012

SA: Pandor: Address by the Minister of Science and Technology, at the Archie Mafeye memorial lecture (28/03/2012)

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“One hundred years of African intellectual activism”

25 Jan 2012

Increased occurrence of disease in humans: Should we be concerned?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

“They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth.”(2) This quote from H.G Wells’ ‘War of...

31 Oct 2011

Towards 100 years of selfless struggle (October 2011)

POLITICS

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...

28 Oct 2011

ANC: Statement by Gwede Mantashe, African National Congress secretary general, paying tribute to OR Tambo (28/10/2011)

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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...

09 Jun 2011

Go West, young Ma: A view on Chinese immigrants in Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The Chinese media is currently in a tizzy over the phenomenon of upper-middle class residents immigrating to wealthy Western nations - Australia, Canada, the United States (US) - to live, work and...

09 Mar 2011

Africa’s nuclear Renaissance, Part II

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The availability and sustainability of reliable access to energy sources are vital to every aspect of human development and human security. As all sectors of a country’s economy rely on power to...

11 Jan 2011

The impact of China’s presence in the Horn of Africa: Human rights, oil and weapons

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In recent years, China has strengthened its economic ties with Africa through colossal investment in natural resources extraction, oil, infrastructure projects, construction, textile and other...

17 Sep 2010

Brain gain: Skilled diaspora return to Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

After Tomi Adegoke completed a Master's degree in Public Health from a university in the United States of America (USA), she decided to move to Nigeria, the country from which her parents had...

20 Aug 2010

ANC: Statement by Pallo Jordan, African National Congress NEC member, on media freedom (20/08/2010)

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Freedom of expression, of which is Media Freedom an important dimension, is one of the fundamental rights South Africans secured through the democratic political revolution of 1994. After more...

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