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Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday that the Department of Energy (or DoE) would work towards finalising an Integrated Energy Plan (or IEP) for South Africa during the current financial...
South Africa will step up collaboration with other countries to fight terrorism and trans-national crime, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele said on Tuesday. Speaking during a budget vote...
This debate on the budget of State Security happens at a critical time and
juncture in the history of our country. This time is marked by events which
threaten that very state security and...
Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing steadily over the past few years, but needs to push up its growth rate to 10%, African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka believes. He told a...
University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Education lecturer Lynn Bowie said on Wednesday that South Africa would have to continue to find ways to support teachers and schools, provide strong...
Somalia's armed forces have not received "a single bullet" despite the partial lifting of a United Nations arms embargo because the East African country lacks funds, its defence minister said on...
It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia. A child born at the onset of the Somali crisis is now twenty one. Somalia has still a long way to go: the Al Shabaab are...
The May PSC Report contains a country analysis on Zimbabwe, a mission analysis on AMISOM and a retrospective article on the Panel of the Wise. The Zimbabwe country analysis focuses on the...
One of the ambitions of pan-Africanism is the realisation of what Ali Mazrui, the renowned Kenyan political scientist, called Pax Africana, a peace ‘that is protected and maintained by Africa...
Today I had the pleasure of hosting my colleague Dr Guido Westerwelle, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Of course this is not the first time we have met. Last year,...
Africa has been plagued by conflicts since the colonial era, and long thereafter. In the period between the 1960s and the 1990s, 48 African countries experienced about 80 violent changes of...
Following the intervention of the Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia in October 2011 in reaction to the increase in kidnappings on the Kenyan coast, the threat of terrorism in Kenya increased...
In a sign of growing optimism that Somalia is winning a struggle against pirates and al Qaeda-linked insurgents, Britain opened an embassy on Thursday in a set of four metal cabins at Mogadishu...
In a month’s time it will exactly be 50th years since our leaders formed the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). I would therefore like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude...
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Tuesday accused opposition parties of seeking to score political points from the death of South African soldiers in the Central African Republic (or CAR).