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Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of... →
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While the impact of the Covid-19 lock-down on the tourism sector may seem clear, the potential impact on its supply chain has not been... →
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Hardly a week after Mauritius was placed on the European Union’s potential blacklist for money laundering and terrorism financing, another scandal... →
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Without rapid and vastly increased external help to weather the Covid-19 storm and ease their debt-service burden, many African economies could... →
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Vital lessons
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With terms like ‘implementation’ and ‘infrastructure’ dominating South Africa’s current Covid-19 recovery narrative, timely insights on what... →
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I recently participated in a panel discussion on industrial development in Central and West Africa, organised by the United Nations Economic... →
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Based on official figures – which may be somewhat under reported – COVID-19 has not been as devastating in South Africa as initially feared. Back... →
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Factchecking Kenya’s chief justice on judiciary funding and backlog of cases
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To mark the tenth anniversary of Kenya’s constitution, broadcaster NTV interviewed current and former government officials on how the law has been... →
