Making the Mining Charter go further towards genuine empowerment
In 2011 Parliament’s mineral resources committee conducted public hearings on the amendment of the Broad Based Socio Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining Industry, namely the Amended Mining Charter of 2010.
Chinese Economic and Trade Co-operation Zones in Africa: Facing the Challenges
This policy briefing offers an analysis of the reasons for the current state of affairs, and the challenges that Chinese special economic zones to Africa are facing.
What does Hydrocarbon Wealth mean for Foreign Aid in Mozambique?
Recent discoveries of vast gas and mineral resources in Mozambique are attracting unprecedented levels of foreign investment and could transform the country into a major African energy producer.
Timber Trade in Africa’s Great Lakes: The Road From Beni, DRC to Kampala, Uganda
The report provides a political economy analysis of the trade in tropical timber from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to and through Uganda via the Northern Transit Corridor.
Youth Call for Social Change
In dusty Dakar with its litter-strewn streets and heady interlaced smells of spice and goats, an astounding transformation is taking place which holds invaluable lessons for the rest of the continent.
Unpacking the South Africa – Nigeria relationship ahead of the AU Summit
The bilateral relationship between South Africa and Nigeria is often described as cordial.
Shifting global value chains have implications for policy
How can World Trade Organisations rules be advanced in the absence of a conclusion of the Doha round? Other approaches need to be explored, including plurilateral or small group negotiations under the auspices of the WTO.
Ten years of a contrasted union: The African Union at the crossroads or business as usual?
The 19th summit of the African Union (AU) from 9-16 July in Addis Ababa will in all likelihood not be ordinary, as it will mark a decade since the transformation of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) into the AU in 2002 in Durban, South Africa.
Rio+20 in the rearview mirror
The intentions of the recent UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil, Rio+20, compared to its 1992 precursor, were less about revisiting the outcomes from past events than crafting its own path towards sustainable development for the next decade.
The Chinese media in an era of state-led communication
China’s unique economic growth story has attracted significant international and African media attention.