A cry for recognition and protection: Zimbabwe’s forgotten Informal Cross Border Traders
The Beitbridge border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, the busiest border post in Southern Africa, has been rocked by unprecedented violent protests since June.
Africa’s $100 billion infrastructure gap: why Africa must seize the moment on the New Development Bank
Africa’s infrastructure financing deficit, estimated to be $100 billion a year, remains persistently large. The resulting lack of investment in energy, transport and water infrastructure on the continent presents a significant barrier to economic growth and development.
Reconfiguring South Africa’s BEE Models in Mining: Linking profits to employee share schemes
The mineral resources minister recently gazetted an amended Mining Charter, which generated a good deal of controversy. Although the revised charter retains the principal target of achieving 26% ownership of mining companies by historically disadvantaged South Africans, it adds the requirement of retaining this level continuously.
SMEs and GVCs in the G20: Implications for Africa and developing countries
Increasing the participation of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs) is now an accepted G20 priority that features prominently on the Chinese government’s agenda for the 2016 summit.
A Stitch in Time: Preventive Diplomacy and the Lake Malawi Dispute
A low-intensity dispute between Malawi and Tanzania threatens regional peace as the two countries contest the demarcation of their national boundaries at Lake Malawi. This long-standing dispute became more urgent when in 2011 the Malawian government issued licences for oil prospecting beneath the lake’s northern shoreline.
Modi’s African safari
Nearly nine months ago the third India-Africa Forum Summit, and the first that included all African states, was held with much fanfare in Delhi.
Young Leaders Conference Delaration 2016
Negotiated and Agreed Upon at the 4th South African Institute of International Affairs Young Leaders Conference Johannesburg, South Africa.
A new narrative for African agriculture
The drought that has hammered Southern Africa over the past years is a potent reminder (if ever it was needed) of the foundational importance of agriculture to the continent’s fortunes. Agriculture remains a mainstay of Africa’s economy, accounting for around a third of GDP and two thirds of employment.
Uncharted territory as the UK opts to exit the European Union
What many political and financial analysts viewed until a day before the British referendum on a European exit as scaremongering has come to be.
Would a Brexit matter for South Africa?
Who would have thought that the Brexit debate’s rising emotions would have reached their apogee in a horrific killing in the streets of a West Yorkshire town a week before the referendum that will determine the economic and global trajectory of Britain?