The Conversation
Conservation efforts can't afford to shy away from high-risk conflict zones
7th July 2016 Between 1950 and 2000, 80% of the world’s armed conflicts took place within biodiversity hotspots. These are places that contain unusually high... →
Apartheid and the making of a black psychologist
6th July 2016 This is an extract from “Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir by N Chabani Manganyi”. Chapter 5 is an account of Manganyi’s... →
'The Oscar Pistorius Interview': Are we being manipulated? If so, by who?
5th July 2016 Convicted murderer and paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s first interview since the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 was broadcast in... →
Controlling big business in a post-Brexit world: Can the UK cope alone?
5th July 2016 Brexit has been framed in some quarters as the defeat of globalisation and a push back against the domination of big business in politics and... →
What South Africa needs to do to step away from the downgrade precipice
4th July 2016 In early June the international debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s granted a stay of execution by not downgrading the South African government’s... →
The link between public violence and xenophobia in South Africa
4th July 2016 South African media recently published an unsettling interview with Mandla Matikinya, a branch leader of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth... →
How Africa's 1990s 'poster boys' use security fears to roll back democracy 
29th June 2016 Hopes of progression along a reformist democratic path in some key sub-Saharan African states appear to be receding. Greater democracy, enhanced... →
Violence in South Africa's capital leaves ANC vulnerable at the polls
27th June 2016 The violence in Tshwane since South Africa’s governing African National Congress’s (ANC) announced Thoko Didiza as its mayoral candidate has been... →
Britain votes to leave the EU, Cameron quits – here's what happens next
24th June 2016 Britain has voted to leave the European Union. This is having an immediate effect on markets. It is also having immediate political ramifications.... →
Political violence in South Africa points to rising tensions in the ANC
23rd June 2016 Protesters allied to South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) have been on a rampage following a fallout over the party’s choice of... →
