Across sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 34 million adolescent girls of secondary school age remain out of school, according to Unesco statistics. This is a travesty in light of the gains girls make in primary school, where they outperform boys in many African...
In a multipolar world, African agency rests on two pillars: reclaiming the continent’s physical space and resources, and liberating the African mindset from colonial legacies of subservience and post-colonial dependency. This point was strongly highlighted by the...
There is no shortage of literature on the qualities of a good leader. Yet, in governance spaces across the public and private sectors, good leaders are scarce enough to wonder why there’s such a profound deficit in them, and if we might be missing something. The...
As South Africa prepares to host the G20 Summit for the first time, one of the top concerns is South Africa’s youth, a precarious cohort of the population that, with limited opportunities to strengthen their education and skills development, faces a future of...
Cutting greenhouse gases from energy production and transport tends to take centre stage when we talk about fighting climate change, but circular economies — keeping materials in use for as long as possible through reuse, recycling, repair and design innovation — is...
In the breach left by failing local government services, citizens have been making alternative plans for years, buying solar panels to get off the electricity grid, digging boreholes to tap underground water and purchasing water tanks to help them get through water...
If you Google ‘What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for government?’, you will get a string of applications, including traffic flow analysis, streamlining healthcare services, enhanced large-scale infrastructure monitoring, processing large amounts of data, task...
Illegal forestry in Africa thrives where there is conflict and where law enforcement is weak. About 30% of Africa’s forests are fast disappearing because of illegal logging and timber trade, according to the African Union. The unseen effects may be far more...
The glaring inaction that followed the Zondo Commission report, with no arrests or consequences for people named in it two years after it was published, came under the spotlight recently at the 4th annual Southern African Institute of Government Auditors (SAIGA)...
September 2024 marks exactly 39 years since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women that culminated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. This conference heralded a critical turning point for the global agenda for gender equality, and had the girl...
Across sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 34 million adolescent girls of secondary school age remain out of school, according to Unesco statistics. This is a travesty in light of the gains girls make in primary school, where they outperform boys in many African...
In a multipolar world, African agency rests on two pillars: reclaiming the continent’s physical space and resources, and liberating the African mindset from colonial legacies of subservience and post-colonial dependency. This point was strongly highlighted by the...
There is no shortage of literature on the qualities of a good leader. Yet, in governance spaces across the public and private sectors, good leaders are scarce enough to wonder why there’s such a profound deficit in them, and if we might be missing something. The...
As South Africa prepares to host the G20 Summit for the first time, one of the top concerns is South Africa’s youth, a precarious cohort of the population that, with limited opportunities to strengthen their education and skills development, faces a future of...
Cutting greenhouse gases from energy production and transport tends to take centre stage when we talk about fighting climate change, but circular economies — keeping materials in use for as long as possible through reuse, recycling, repair and design innovation — is...
In the breach left by failing local government services, citizens have been making alternative plans for years, buying solar panels to get off the electricity grid, digging boreholes to tap underground water and purchasing water tanks to help them get through water...
If you Google ‘What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for government?’, you will get a string of applications, including traffic flow analysis, streamlining healthcare services, enhanced large-scale infrastructure monitoring, processing large amounts of data, task...
Illegal forestry in Africa thrives where there is conflict and where law enforcement is weak. About 30% of Africa’s forests are fast disappearing because of illegal logging and timber trade, according to the African Union. The unseen effects may be far more...
The glaring inaction that followed the Zondo Commission report, with no arrests or consequences for people named in it two years after it was published, came under the spotlight recently at the 4th annual Southern African Institute of Government Auditors (SAIGA)...
September 2024 marks exactly 39 years since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women that culminated in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. This conference heralded a critical turning point for the global agenda for gender equality, and had the girl...