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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... →
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... →
Belfast and Johannesburg: peas in a racist pod?
By: Brandon Hamber 10th July 2009 I long to live in a society where there is no racism but, living between Belfast and Johannesburg, this is impossible. →
Helping Africa Save Itself
By: Idasa, an African Democracy Institute 8th July 2009 In DEAD AID, Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian-born economist, lays out a brash argument: that the more than $1 trillion in foreign assistance given to... →
Huge effort required
to get South African economy out of the rut 
By: Seeraj Mohamed 3rd July 2009 A few months ago, there was a debate in the media about whether the South African economy would decline into recession. →
SA must aspire to a C-lean, job-rich economy
By: Harald Winkler 19th June 2009 Our country is facing many challenges – creating jobs for the poor, keeping the lights on, battling climate change and all that in the transition... →
Responding to the President’s Zuma’s State of the Nation Address: Reflections on the Challenges confronting Higher Education
By: Adam Habib 12th June 2009 What is required of a Presidential State of the Nation address at the dawn of a new political administration? Two elements are important in such an... →
There is no recovery yet
By: Seeraj Mohamed 12th June 2009 Many newspaper reports give us false hope that the global economic crisis has started to abate. They argue that the US financial system is... →
Where were you when the UK government imploded?
By: Brandon Hamber 12th June 2009 There is probably not a reader of this column who has not been part of a ‘where were you when?’ conversation. Where were you when Nelson Mandela... →
Constitutional Court Appointments Will Test Judicial Waters
By: Idasa, an African Democracy Institute 10th June 2009 When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meets later this year to consider who will replace four titans of the Constitutional Court when their... →
