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The Anti-Trafficking Bill, the Immigration Act and the Refugee Appeal Board 
By: Chris Watters 7th April 2010 The Justice Portfolio Committee's announcement that it will not be ‘fast-tracking' the Anti-Tracking Bill [‘ATB'] is to be welcomed by allowing for... →
Are SA’s political and business elites suffering from an overinflated sense of entitlement?
By: Terence Creamer 2nd April 2010 In their popular book “Freakonomics”, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner relate the story of small bagel-delivery service started by Paul Feldman, an... →
Sudan’s Historical April 2010 Elections
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 31st March 2010 Free and fair elections should ideally only take place when there is a stable security environment. Many fear that the upcoming elections in Sudan,... →
Whatever happened to Hissène Habré?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 31st March 2010 On Wednesday 16 March 2010, the increasingly influential Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice announced that it... →
Benefits of democracy lost in the gap between constitution and complex reality
By: Idasa, an African Democracy Institute 29th March 2010 Along the mall in Washington DC stands the Korean war memorial. Alongside it, a marble wall with the powerful words, ‘Freedom is not free'. →
Asian Values and African Choices
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 29th March 2010 The economic rise of Asia has provoked an intermittent intellectual struggle that posits "Asian values" as opposed to Western ways. This debate... →
The role of BASIC Countries in the Climate Change Negotiations after Copenhagen
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 29th March 2010 BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) have been vilified and praised for the role they played in brokering the Copenhagen Accord... →
Reducing the Pool of Illicit Firearms by Destructions in South Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th March 2010 Hundreds of thousands of obsolete, surplus, surrendered and confiscated firearms have been destroyed in South Africa over the last two decades... →
New industrial offset instrument to include ‘stronger’ targets
By: Terence Creamer 26th March 2010 While the key thrust of “leveraging procurement” for industrialisation in South Africa hinges on a transition from unstructured procurement... →
State-led development and neoliberalism
By: Seeraj Mohamed 26th March 2010 There is much anti-State sentiment in South Africa, which is given much voice in the media. A great deal of negative sentiment is due to the... →
