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“Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.” – Mark Zuckerberg...

SA: Statement by the Presidency, President Zuma condemns the brutal assault of woman (17/04/2013)

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President Jacob Zuma condemned the physical abuse and assault meted out to a woman by two males, who are described by the Daily Sun newspaper that posted the video on social networks, as security...

SA: Statement by the Department of Communications, marking International Women's Day (08/03/2013)

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With the mobile penetration rate exceeding 100% more women have access to technology than ever before. Mobile technology is improving the lives of women in the health sector by providing feedback...

The unemployed in South Africa: Why are so many not counted?

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The official rate of unemployment includes only the unemployed who are actively searching for work. However, findings from new data challenge this practice. The ‘searching unemployed’ are no...

SA: Address by Fikile Mbalula, Minister of Sport and Recreation, at the media conference to congratulate Bafana Bafana, Johannesburg (25/01/2013)

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We stand here this morning as a proud and confident nation imbued by the resounding thrashing, walloping and gregarious defeat of the Angolan national football Team in Ethekwini by the our...

Performance-based financing for health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: What have we learnt so far? - Part 2

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In a recent World Health Organisation bulletin, Atle et al. draw attention to the complexity surrounding studying and understanding performance-based financing (PBF) models, their effects on health...

SA: Statement by the Justice Project South Africa, non-profit corruption prevention company, on hoax emails on Sanral's e-toll (20/11/2012)

STATEMENT

Perhaps SANRAL deemed it necessary to re-release this release due to the fact that, all of a sudden hoax emails making outrageous claims about the controversial eTolling project have again been...

SA: Dina Pule: Address by the Minister of Communications, at the Future of Privacy and the world in 2020 Seminar, University of Pretoria, Gauteng (13/11/2012)

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Good morning to all of you. It’s wonderful to be here again at the University of Pretoria. Our collaboration with the University is certainly bearing fruit and I am honoured to be discussing a...

Rising inequality in South Africa: Drivers, trends and policy responses

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In the 1998 Parliamentary debate on reconciliation and nation-building, then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki famously argued that South Africa comprised ‘two-nations’ divided by poverty and...

Hide and seek finally comes to an end . . .

Bouwer Kobeli Morabe

SERVICE VIA SOCIAL NETWORKS Legal history was made in the Durban High Court during August 2012 when Judge Esther Steyn allowed service of a legal notice via Facebook for the first time in South...

SA: Grizelda Cjiekella: Address by the the Acting Premier of the Northern Cape Province, on the occasion of the launch of the Techno Girl Project, Savoy Hotel, Kimberly (20/08/2012)

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Programme Director Executive Mayor of Sol Plaatje Municipality, Ald Agnes Ntlangula Our Private Sector partners Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed a great honour for us as the...

The role of social media in Egypt’s 2012 presidential election

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Social media and other forms of communication technology have played a big role in the political formation of Egypt since the 2011 uprisings. In the wake of the uprisings, Egyptians called upon the...

The rise of the expert patient: A fresh perspective on human resource for health in Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The knowledge and experience held by the patient has long remained an untapped resource within health systems.(2) In the global north, patient-centred health systems were established mainly as a...

The Congo Basin: When the war moves in the parks

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

On 24 June 2012, there was attack on the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the village of Epulu in the Ituri province of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is the latest incident in a string of...

Countering unlawful activities in the African littoral: The search for coherency, primacy and trust

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Despite considerable international efforts directed at countering piracy,(2) and despite the fact that African member states are witnessing unprecedented times for maritime related economic...

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