South African Business Marching North: Is there a case for regulation?
The recent announcement by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Jeff Radebe, that the South African government is investigating the option of legislation to regulate the behaviour of South African firms on the continent has resonated throughout the business community.
Lift the Yoke, Uplift the Child
Although most of Africa threw off colonial rule four decades ago, the continent’s education systems still bear the heavy imprint of curricula designed by erstwhile foreign regimes.
Dunces Shall Lead Them
As free primary school swells classrooms, Tanzania deploys severely unqualified educators. Universal primary education has created a deluge of final-year primary school students seeking spots in secondary schools.
Seeding the Harvest
For two years 18 international experts in agricultural sciences and economics considered how to apply science and technology more effectively to respond to the central challenges of farming in Africa, which include: predominance of customary land tenure; lack of functioning competitive markets and politically enabling environments; and inherently poor soil fertility.
Heed Not the Cynics, Africa
Africa, Henry Kissinger writes in his book Does America Need a Foreign Policy?, is destined to become ‘the festering disaster of our age’. In his view, only the ‘moral commitment of the American people and the international community’ can save us from that fate.
The Peas and Potatoes of Economic Stability
In 1980, 133 million people living south of the Sahara faced constant malnutrition.
Visa Scams Proliferate As Zimbabweans Seek to Flee
Evelyn Mudzongachiso represents the last link in one of Zimbabwe’s many chains of modern misery. The worse things get under President Robert Mugabe’s deepening repression, the more people are attempting to leave the country.
Where to now for alleged coup plotters?
Judge Bernard Ngoepe has dismissed a case brought by a group of alleged mercenaries to compel the South African government to request their extradition from Zimbabwe to stand trial in South Africa under the Foreign Military Assistance Act.
Talks Give Nepad a Nudge
African and Western policymakers refine agenda for continent’s development in Maputo.
The Never-Ending War Of Robert Gabriel Mugabe
24 years later, Zimbabwe’s Big Man jousts with phantoms from a struggle few can remember.