Development Through Trade – Opinion pieces
Herewith the listing of news and media items written by researchers involved in SAIIA’s Development Through Trade project. Articles are not necessarily confined to the project’s area of focus.
Nigeria: Yar’Adua Must Rekindle Nepad
Nigeria’s recent presidential elections were marred with accusations of widespread electoral fraud, raising serious questions about governance in Africa’s most populous nation.
Act now, or history will say SA ruined peer review
South Africa, as one of the leading voices for governance reform in Africa, has undermined that very effort by the manner in which it has conducted the African Peer Review Mechanism.
SA’s peer review tactics dishonest
IT IS an interesting reflection of the times that the word “denialism” has so easily slipped into everyday usage that any ordinary person immediately knows what the phrase conveys and the tendencies that create the need for such a word.
Finding Zambia’s APRM COPPER
The African Peer Review Process (APRM) is getting underway in Zambia. Although in its preparatory stages – with the political responsibility having recently shifted from the ministry of foreign affairs to the ministry of justice – there is a palpable sense of excitement amongst Zambian civil society.
Political manipulation in SA’s flawed peer-review process
I WISH to respond to minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi’s article (Weekend Argus, May 27), in which she questions my integrity in speaking out about South Africa’s flawed peer-review process and asserts that I have lied and “peddled half-truths”.
Mauritania made slavery illegal last month
In August, Mauritania’s parliament voted to make slavery illegal. It is a sad comment on the longevity and resilience of slavery that this occurred on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire.
African Human Rights Day reveals a glimpse of continent’s challenge
On October 21, we celebrated if indeed we noticed it at all African Human Rights Day, commemorating the date in 1986 when the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights came into effect.
Measuring the unimportance of being earnest
Does governance matter in attracting firms to invest in Africa? Yes, if investors’ statements are to be taken at face value.
Moçambique, relatório do país
As primeiras eleições multi-partidárias em Moçambique, no ano de 1994, marcaram um ponto na história, pondo fim 17 anos de conflito político, instabilidade e guerra civil, e encerrando um capítulo sobre mais de um século de governo autoritário que começou com a colonização Portuguesa.