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Ramaphosa's critical choices to get South Africa back on track
By: Creamer Media Reporter 14th June 2019 South Africa’s economy is in dire straits. Unemployment has reached a 15-year high of 27.6%. And in the first quarter of this year GDP growth... →
Resolving South Africa’s brutal order
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 14th June 2019 Democratic societies become violent when their governments lose the monopoly on force, and trust between citizens and the state erodes. This is... →
Free trade area finally comes to Africa
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 14th June 2019 May 30 was a particularly significant day for Africa. While global trends move from integration towards heightened protectionism, African countries... →
Seize the opportunity
By: Terence Creamer 14th June 2019 In early May, South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi surprised many when he described the transition... →
Botswana court ruling is a ray of hope for LGBT people across Africa
13th June 2019 Botswana’s High Court has ruled that private consensual sex between adults of the same sex is no longer criminal. The decision gives hope to... →
New Bill offers robust game plan against cybercrime in South Africa
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 13th June 2019 A significant increase in internet access combined with a growing reliance on e-governance, commercial services, social networks, and the Internet... →
Does Kenya have one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world?
By: Africa Check 13th June 2019 A British charity’s recent appeal for donations said the death rates of mothers and young children in Kenya were very high, giving statistics to... →
Faction fights on three fronts
12th June 2019 Last week’s conflagration on the SA Reserve Bank’s mandate threw into sharp relief the faction fights in the ANC. Currently they are being fought... →
Study shows young South Africans have no faith in democracy and politicians
12th June 2019 On the eve of South Africa’s sixth democratic elections on 8 May, thousands of young people took to Twitter to state reasons for why they had no... →
African governments can learn lessons from Asia’s industrialisation
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 12th June 2019 South Korea’s new ambassador to South Africa, Jong-Dae Park, offers advice on growing economies South Korea’s new ambassador to SA, Jong-Dae Park,... →
