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Going for broke in Copenhagen
By: Harald Winkler 20th November 2009 The future of the climate change regime is to be decided in Copenhagen. It is not looking pretty. The US is not ready to put a firm number to the... →
Enabling Higher Education Development through Challenging Commercial Academic Publishing 
By: Adam Habib 18th November 2009 Can you imagine an industry in which the workers who laboriously produce the product are paid by the public purse, those that painstakingly review... →
New “Tough on Crime” Policy will Need a Better-Trained Police Force
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2009 Pronouncements by the new South African Police Service (SAPS) management and even the Presidency on its approach to harden the stance in the fight... →
AU Darfur Panel Report: Will Justice for some and political reform for others suffice for Sudan?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2009 Under the auspices of an African solution to the intractable Darfur conflict, with the African Union (AU) preparing to take on a more robust role... →
To Forgive Mercenaries in the Spirit of Madiba
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 18th November 2009 The recent presidential pardon for convicted South African mercenaries in Equatorial Guinea is unprecedented. While others view this as an insult... →
Zuma’s contradictory coalition
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 13th November 2009 In the months leading up to the 2007 Polokwane conference of the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions... →
Fiscal conservatism and economic wildfires
By: Seeraj Mohamed 13th November 2009 Many economic commentators and journalists are raising concerns about South Africa’s growing budget deficit. →
Madagascar: A Triumvirate to head the Transition Government
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th November 2009 On 7 November, Malagasy political protagonists reached an agreement on some of the remaining contentious issues in the country's political crisis.... →
Cote d’Ivoire: Whose Election is it Anyway?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 11th November 2009 Once again Cote d'Ivoire will not hold the much-anticipated presidential elections planned for November 29. As days go by, it is becoming a... →
Something for the left and business in Budget framework
By: Terence Creamer 6th November 2009 There was something for the so-called "leftists" and the "nationalists" in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's inaugural Medium-Term Budget Policy... →
