South African Institute of International Affairs
What Prospects for a Renaissance of Economic Liberalism?
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 18th March 2011 The global economic crisis marked the end of a thirty-year chapter of economic liberalism, and opened a new one of Big Government. Twenty-first... →
South Africa: mining revenue, transparency and the EITI
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 11th March 2011 On 2 March 2011, the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) convened its fifth global conference in Paris, France. South Africa was... →
Zuma’s Paris visit – the Africa background
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 2nd March 2011 President Jacob Zuma will land in Paris on 02 March just three days after French President Sarkozy has operated a major cabinet re-shuffle. Rated... →
Libya’s Oil Makes all the Difference
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 1st March 2011 As a new wave of democratisation breaks on Africa’s northern shores, the common goals of the Maghreb’s people are hitting up against starkly... →
First Egypt, and now Yemen’s Lethal Political Cocktail is on the Boil
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 16th February 2011 While the world’s attention is focused on scenes of barricades in central Cairo, the political and media spotlight has finally come to illuminate... →
Parliament: Reclaiming its position in 2011?
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 15th February 2011 Unlike the Egyptian proto-revolution playing out across the world’s television screens, the South African Parliament’s own Prague Spring may have... →
What will Uganda’s Elections mean for Parliamentary Oil Governance?
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 18th January 2011 In February Ugandans will be going to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections. It is an interesting time for a changing of the guard... →
How will South Africa Talk Democracy without a Free Press? 
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 17th January 2011 The fate of media self-regulation in South Africa now rests with parliament. At inception, South Africa’s post-apartheid press laws and regulatory... →
The G20’s Seoul Summit
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 23rd November 2010 The dust is now settling on the Seoul summit. Its outcomes were predictable. On the negative side of the balance sheet there was no substantive... →
Is Nationalisation the Answer? 
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 30th September 2010 Cuba and its revolution have long been emotional reference points for revolutionary cadres in South Africa. This sentimental attachment relates to,... →