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The ICC Offers a Glimmer of Hope for Justice in Kenya
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 20th April 2010 Despite ongoing calls to end the widespread culture of impunity in Kenya, justice has not been at the top of the government's agenda in recent... →
Kenyan Push for New Constitutional Dispensation and the Potential for Religious Divide
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 19th April 2010 Kenya's leading churches have rejected the country's proposed new constitution and their respective leaders have vowed to mobilize their followers... →
Volk, Faith and Fatherland: The Resurgence of the White Right? 
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 19th April 2010 The murder of Eugene Terre`Blanche, the leader of the "Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging" (AWB) on 2 April 2010 could not have happened at a worse time... →
Terre’Blanche’s killing one
of those things that continue to divide South Africa
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 16th April 2010 The killing of AWB leader Eugene TerreBlanche has added to the list of things that continue to divide South Africa along racial lines. →
SA’s new electricity wholesaler will need to own the transmission network
By: Terence Creamer 16th April 2010 It appears increasingly likely that the long-anticipated unbundling of the power transmission business from State utility Eskom - a scenario that... →
Should we have a carbon tax to promote a low-carbon economy?
By: Saliem Fakir 16th April 2010 The question of the merits of a universal carbon tax compared with those of a cap-and-trade system is a source of considerable debate among... →
Pension funds should support developmental investments
By: Seeraj Mohamed 16th April 2010 Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel recently told Parliament that government would draw on pension funds investments to support economic... →
From Transport to Defence: New Secretary for Defence Appointed in South Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th April 2010 The recent appointment, last month, of Mpumi Mpofu as the new Secretary for Defence (Sec Def) in South Africa by President Jacob Zuma came somewhat... →
The Politics of Seizing Stolen Assets in South Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 14th April 2010 The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) is known as one of the major components of the state's war on organised crime. Local and international experts seem... →
Very Expensive Milk and Cookies
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th April 2010 A recent report in the South African media (Rapport 24 January 2010) related the story of a 23-year old man, Morgan Matlala, who entered the... →
