Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa’s Mining Industry: An Assessment
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda has been a part of the global debate on socio-economic development for many decades. Countless claims have been made that CSR can contribute towards more inclusive development and the alleviation of poverty.
Steps southern Africa can take to reach the new development goals
When the Southern African Development Community (SADC) launched its cross-border HIV/AIDS initiative in 2012, mobile clinics were set up at border posts across the region. Anyone living in these areas or travelling through could freely access the clinics for primary health care.
Beyond naval interventions in Somali piracy
In 2011, at the height of piracy attacks along the Somali coastline and the Gulf of Aden, 237 separate attacks were reported. This figure has fallen drastically over the years, with only 12 attacks being reported in 2014. This decline has been attributed to the collective efforts of the international community to address Somali piracy.
Why Africa is losing out by letting the peer review process collapse
Why is the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the continent’s most important governance assessment and promotion tool, in the doldrums?
Untangling the regulatory yoke for businesses in South Africa
South Africa is a country of contradictions. Depending on one’s circles and political or moral convictions one always gets something fascinating. If it’s not Nkandla, its Ramaphosa flying on a Gupta plane.
Should Heritage Day be renamed Heritages Day?
South Africa has seldom approached Heritage Day with a more fractured sense of what constitutes our heritage and what should be celebrated. Angry exchanges over the character of our universities, language policy, public memorials and so on have exposed the divides that run through our society and have even called into question whether we are one nation.
New development goals on health need more work to be realistic
The next chapter of the global development agenda – the Sustainable Development Goals – will shift the global focus and debate around health systems.
China–Africa Co-operation: Capacity Building and Social Responsibility of Investments
The increasingly visible Chinese economic presence in Africa has led to analyses that run the gamut from highly laudatory, ie, considering Chinese investments as a contribution to African development, to strongly critical, ie, considering them as exploitative.
Shifting Security Challenges in the China–Africa Relationship
China’s involvement in African security has deepened in recent years, with growing multilateral engagements with the AU and the UN.
WTO 2.0: Will the WTO be able to reinstate its centrality in the global trading landscape in the 21st century?
That the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been in the grip of a systemic crisis since 2008 is well known. Notwithstanding relatively minor successes at the Bali Ministerial in December 2013, the WTO’s negotiating function remains effectively stalled. The Nairobi Ministerial, set to take place in December 2015, is not likely to yield systemic solutions, notably to break the Doha Round impasse.