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Carbon trading: The real threat facing Africa?
By: In On Africa IOA 14th September 2010 Amidst current initiatives to mitigate global warming such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD projects),... →
Institutional Schizophrenia and Police Militarisation 
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 14th September 2010 The South African Police Service (SAPS) currently finds itself in a serious dilemma over changes that are described by some as a process of... →
Voting in the 2009 South African Elections: Did Public Policy Matter?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th September 2010 Elections are an opportunity for political parties to appeal to voters by campaigning on the most important issues that concern voters. Likewise,... →
The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment: A Report on Africa’s Future Environmental Affairs Strategies
By: In On Africa IOA 10th September 2010 Africa faces increasingly complex challenges that demand urgent action from its best technological minds and international partners. The... →
Mandatory Registration of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Cards in Africa – Ingenious Idea or Misplaced?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th September 2010 New compulsory decrees for tighter regulation of the mobile phone industry abound in Africa. Cellular phone service providers are required by law... →
Development and Climate Change...Convergent or Divergent? A Look at South Africa’s Coal Dependency and its Green Targets
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 9th September 2010 Climate change mitigation is a difficult process for developing nations because immediate developmental concerns, such as poverty eradication and... →
Right2Know Demands: Let the Truth be Told
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 8th September 2010 In the historic setting of Cape Town's St Georges Cathedral, over 300 South African and international civil society organisations launched the... →
One rule for the West and another for the rest? Oil spills in the Niger Delta versus the Gulf of Mexico
By: In On Africa IOA 8th September 2010 The April 2010 British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has caused global outrage, eliciting quick political, financial, legal and... →
Graffiti devalues communities
By: Amy Witherden 7th September 2010 On Sunday, July 18, while the Dabulamanzi Canoe Club was conducting a cleanup of Emmarentia dam, a graffiti "artist" was interrupted in the act of... →
Public Private Partnerships for Prisons: Another Crossroad?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 7th September 2010 The decision to substantially outsource any core activity of the state to the private sector, particularly criminal justice system functions, is... →
