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South Africa needs a functioning parliamentary budget office: now's the time to fix it
24th May 2019 South Africa’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) is in complete disarray. In the 10 years since it was established by law, and the five years it... →
Algeria, Sudan and the power of protest
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th May 2019 In the past two months, historic anti-government protests across Algeria and Sudan have forced their ageing autocrats to resign after decades of... →
East Africa: Marine-based ‘blue economies’ offer massive potential
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 24th May 2019 Developing ocean-based resources in areas such as fisheries, aquaculture, coastal tourism, transport and ports, mining and energy, could generate... →
Out of step
By: Terence Creamer 24th May 2019 A new report on global energy investment in 2018 points to an ongoing misalignment between approved expenditure on new fuel and power projects and... →
Will free trade be Africa’s economic game changer?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 23rd May 2019 The ambitious African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) which technically enters into force on 30 May could be the game changer for... →
Data fails to capture complexity of South Africa's unemployment crisis
23rd May 2019 It’s been 25 years since democracy dawned in South Africa. But apartheid’s legacies still scar the country. Poverty remains high; inequality... →
Fixing South Africa’s broken windows
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 23rd May 2019 In 1982, George L Kelling and James Q Wilson penned an article that created the idea of broken windows policing. Kelling, who died on 15 May aged... →
Post 2019 Elections: Time For Electoral Reform And Dusting Off The Van Zyl Slabbert Report
22nd May 2019 In the aftermath of a highly-contested national and provincial election, questions must be asked why only 65.99% of registered voters turned out to... →
Ramaphosa's cabinet: who and what's needed to end South Africa's malaise
22nd May 2019 South Africans recently went to the polls in a national election which the African National Congress (ANC) won by a wide margin. The incumbent... →
Beyond politics: options for an AU-UN partnership that delivers
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 21st May 2019 The human security benefits of collaboration between the United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) are clear. With the formidable resources and... →
