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Fair climate finance requires debt reform
From biased risk assessments to harsh loan conditionality, the global financial architecture is practically designed to entrench inequality. Reforming it…
Trump’s attack on Ramaphosa was an insult to Africa
The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was, at its heart, about…
South Africa is scrapping special work permits for Zimbabweans – migrants will be left exposed
Why is the #ZEP matter in court and what are the contested issues?
How to impeach a president: Ramaphosa case puts new rules to the test in South Africa
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa faces possible impeachment in the country’s parliament over the illegal stashing of thousands of US…
The tough decisions facing South Africa’s ANC
The Kenyan elections have just concluded with the outcome now being contested in court. Kenyans should, up until this stage,…
Zimbabwe – South Africa relations turn frosty in the wake of an immigration crisis
Things may get worse next year, 2023, when 180, 000 Zimbabweans will be deported from South Africa just before watershed…
How the internet is remaking music – and remaking us
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter, but that all subject matter is presented as…
South Africa is trapped again: What kind of leaders can set the country free?
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has warned that the country was ripe for its own Arab Spring
How social media can change actions that drive gender-based violence
What we say and where we say it matters for preventing discrimination, and social media is now a priority.
Sand poaching: Africa’s growing disaster
Sand, a scarce renewable natural resource created from rock, is arguably the second most important natural resource after water.