Other Opinions
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... →
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... →
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... →
