May 21

• South Africa: Low Expectations From Lower Education? [analysis]

  It is difficult to be positive about our educational system, supported by a government department that consumes more than a fifth of our total budget. Despite this we languish at... Read more »

May 13

• South Africa: Capital's Insatiable Drive for Profits at the Heart of Wage, Employment Crisis [analysis]

  If capital is to be believed, it is the worker who is the main source of South Africa's contemporary social and economic problems. Read more »

May 10

• South Africa: Socio-Economic Rights Still Eluding Marikana Communities [opinion]

  John Capel of the Bench Marks Foundation talks about the efforts of his organisation to widen the scope of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry (also known as the Farlam Commission),... Read more »

May 6

• South Africa: Electricity - We Will Be Held to Ransom If We Don't Fight Back [analysis]

  Living with an electricity monopoly armed with a mandate to provide basic services can be a double-edged sword. Read more »

May 3

• South Africa: UK Doubles Aid Budget but Ends Aid to South Africa [analysis]

  On April 30th 2013, the Mail and Guardian reported that the United Kingdom will phase out aid to South Africa. While the press has implied that the cuts are due to budget reasons,... Read more »

• South Africa: The Future of Information Leaks [analysis]

  As South Africa commemorates another World Press Freedom Day, this day will no doubt focus minds on Parliament's decision to pass the controversial Protection of State Information... Read more »

April 30

• Africa: The Deep Roots of May Day [analysis]

  The deep roots of May Day lie in the ancient forests of Europe. Read more »

April 25

• South Africa: Taking Back Our Pride [opinion]

  Joburg Pride has closed it doors, shut down, is no longer in business. They obliquely lay the blame at the feet of the One in Nine Campaign in what seems like a disingenuous bid to... Read more »

April 24

• South Africa: The Other Side of Silence [analysis]

  "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on... Read more »

April 23

• Africa: Is Africa About to Lose the Right to Her Seed? [analysis]

  Seed and the control of seed lies at the heart of agriculture. Read more »

April 22

• South Africa: Zuma and the ANC's God Complex [opinion]

  God (of the Christian variety) runs deep in the veins of the ANC. Read more »

April 11

• South Africa: Global Wealth Inequality - What You Never Knew You Never Knew [opinion]

  People are talking a lot about inequality these days. It continues to grow within and between countries. The world's total wealth has been estimated at US$223 trillion. The richest... Read more »

April 9

• South Africa: The People Shall Obey [analysis]

  In his speech at the memorial service for the soldiers who were killed in the Central African Republic Jacob Zuma presented us, and not for the first time, with the idea that we... Read more »

April 5

• Africa: The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize [opinion]

  The Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama received 40 months ago has emerged as the most appalling Orwellian award of this century. No, war is not peace. Read more »

April 3

• South Africa: Funding Civil Society in South Africa - Where Does the Money Go? [opinion]

  Last week South African NGO, The Institute for Democracy in Africa (Idasa) announced its closure for lack of funds. Many have asked how this could happen when donor funding to... Read more »

• Africa: South Africa's Military Adventurism - a Dangerous Shift in Foreign Policy [analysis]

  The role of the military in Africa has morphed from the established model of supporting strongmen, to that of projecting economic power and influence. This has recently been placed... Read more »

April 2

• South Africa: The Brics Bank and World Dominance - How Real Is This? [opinion]

  The 5th BRICS Summit recently hosted in Durban has come to an end with great fanfare and celebrations that progress has been made with the announcement that a BRICS development... Read more »

March 28

• Africa: Idasa's Demise, Broken Donor Promises and Africa's Naive Civil Society [analysis]

  In a March 26 press statement, the Executive Director of The Institute for Democracy in Africa (Idasa), Paul Graham, announced that the venerable South African democratisation and... Read more »

March 27

• South Africa: BRICS Go Over the Wall [opinion]

  Reports on the premature death of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have been greatly exaggerated. Western corporate media is flooded with such nonsense,... Read more »

March 26

• South Africa: Policing the Neo-Colony [analysis]

  In the colonies ... the agents of government speak the language of pure force. - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 Read more »

March 19

• South Africa: The NGO Salary and Sustainability Conundrum [opinion]

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• South Africa: From Lusaka to Marikana [opinion]

  On Friday night Thembinkosi Qumbelo was gunned down in a local bar where he was watching a football game on television. It was a well organised hit on a man who had, for years,... Read more »

• Africa: Philanthropy 2.0 - Problem or Solution? [analysis]

  Warren Buffett has pledged to give away the bulk of his fortune to philanthropic causes. Bill and Melinda Gates are prominent benefactors. In South Africa, Patrice Motsepe has... Read more »

March 17

• South Africa: Old Allies Building New Relations Bric By Bric [opinion]

  There is the usual chorus of loud voices, "What is South Africa doing in the BRICS, and does it even belong there?" Such observations are inconsequential to the evolving fate of... Read more »

March 12

• South Africa: The Impact of Food Prices On Poor South Africans [opinion]

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