Other Opinions
The appointment of the National Director of Public Prosecutions: Bad News - Zimbabwe: Good News
By: Denis Worrall 2nd December 2009 What follows are some of the headlines which greeted President Jacob Zuma’s recent appointment of Mr Menzi Simelane as the National Director of... →
Zimbabwe: Will President Zuma grasp the nettle?
By: Denis Worrall 20th November 2009 As Business Day pointed out in an editorial last week, with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) having now laid down certain... →
Going for broke in Copenhagen
By: Harald Winkler 20th November 2009 The future of the climate change regime is to be decided in Copenhagen. It is not looking pretty. The US is not ready to put a firm number to the... →
Enabling Higher Education Development through Challenging Commercial Academic Publishing 
By: Adam Habib 18th November 2009 Can you imagine an industry in which the workers who laboriously produce the product are paid by the public purse, those that painstakingly review... →
Fiscal conservatism and economic wildfires
By: Seeraj Mohamed 13th November 2009 Many economic commentators and journalists are raising concerns about South Africa’s growing budget deficit. →
Cope: The need for leadership
By: Denis Worrall 5th November 2009 The Financial Mail in November last year had as a cover story "Can they crack it?". This was a reference to the anticipated establishment of a new... →
Whose Interests drive the Government and Politicians in Tanzania?
By: Idasa, an African Democracy Institute 4th November 2009 As Tanzania approaches its national elections in a years' time, it is worth looking back at what holds our democracy so that moving forward as a... →
Climate policy by trade war?
By: Harald Winkler 23rd October 2009 Will climate policy in future be conducted through trade measures? A worrying scenario is that the current approach – negotiating climate change... →
South Africa: Reflecting Confidence
By: Denis Worrall 22nd October 2009 Since his retirement as president of the country and joint Nobel Peace Prize winner with Nelson Mandela, former president F W de Klerk has very... →
Depressed securitisation markets affect financial recovery
By: Seeraj Mohamed 16th October 2009 A year ago, the British government was faced with the prospect of runs on some of the country’s largest banks and riots in the streets if these... →
