South African Institute of International Affairs
One year after the World Cup: Africa and South Africa on the international playing field.
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 12th July 2011 This time last year the world was watching an event unfold in Africa. The eyes of the world were not fixed on Africa because a civil war was... →
World Oceans Day: Balancing commercial and environmental needs
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 9th June 2011 June 8th is World Oceans Day, an opportunity to reflect on the condition of the world’s oceans and our broader relationship with the environment.... →
Anton Hammerl – A casualty of Libya’s ‘un-civil’ war
By: In On Africa IOA 25th May 2011 Armed conflicts, whether big or small, create confusion as social life is disrupted by acts of organised violence. Libya’s rapid descent from... →
The UN Security Council: Is South Africa ready for the prime time?
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 23rd May 2011 It is nearly four months since the rebellion started in Libya and it seems that the intervention sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council... →
Syria: Many factors mitigate against the revolt
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 6th May 2011 Since the long series of public holidays began, I have been called on by the electronic media to comment many times on developments in Syria. For a... →
Côte d’Ivoire: Gbagbo as anti-imperialist hero is mistaken
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 26th April 2011 With the conflict now ostensibly over in Ivory Coast, attention is now sure to turn to the blame game. For former President Laurent Gbagbo, and... →
Côte d’Ivoire: The Battle of Abidjan
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 19th April 2011 As the dust starts to settle on a devastated and traumatised Abidjan, attention has focused on Alassane Ouattara, now the effective, as well as... →
17 years since the genocide: Rwanda’s journey 
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 18th April 2011 In April 2011, in the midst of upheavals and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, Rwandans commemorate the seventeenth anniversary of... →
Côte d'Ivoire: The Spectre of Warlordism
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 31st March 2011 The slide towards civil war in Côte d’Ivoire looks, on the face of it, like a fight between two men in business suits. One refuses to leave power... →
Arab democracy at stake while royals protect their crown jewels
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 24th March 2011 Geopolitics concerns the projection of power and influence across regional or global political-economic and social spaces. For this reason, the... →