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Submission to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
By: Idasa, an African Democracy Institute 23rd July 2009 Idasa made a submission to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development requesting that the draft Constitution 17th Amendment Bill... →
Africa still has the opportunity to do right
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 22nd July 2009 As Africa continues to reflect on president Obama's speech in Ghana during his inaugural visit to the continent as president of the United States,... →
Zimbabwe has a long way to go before sanctions are lifted
By: Idasa, an African Democracy Institute 15th July 2009 The African Union (AU), SADC and the Zimbabwean Government of National Unity (GNU), have recently begun to take it in turns to call for the removal... →
AU’s Decision in Sirte Discourages ICC Supporters
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th July 2009 The outcome of the recent African Union (AU) Summit held in Sirte, Libya on 1-3 July 2009, under the chairmanship of President Muammar Gadaffi,... →
Are we sleepwalking into a surveillance society? 
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 15th July 2009 From 1 July 2009 cellphone service providers in South Africa cannot activate a new SIM card without the full name, address and identity number of... →
Achieving Effective National Environmental Governance in Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th July 2009 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been the forerunner in involving governments in developing and implementing Environmental Law.... →
Russian President Medvedev's visit to Africa, June 2009
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 15th July 2009 In a short period of less than a month, Russia has sought to assert its role in international forums as a leading player in a multipolar world.... →
Reflections on the Development State for South Africa
By: Adam Habib 15th July 2009 A wealth of scholarship has been built up over the last decade or two on the development states of East and South East Asia. This literature has... →
African Solutions to African Problems: In Search of the African Renaissance
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th July 2009 The African Union (AU) and its interventional peace and security architecture could be seen as an institutional expression of the phrase "African... →
Financial system should be reformed
By: Seeraj Mohamed 10th July 2009 I wrote in a recent article in this column that the best investment by US financiers was the billions of dollars they used for lobbying the US... →
