THE WICKED CONVERSATION | Good Governance Africa

The fall of Bukavu: Rwanda, M23, and the battle for influence in the eastern DRC

by Stephen Buchanan-Clarke | Feb 22, 2025 | Human Security, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

In mid-February 2025, M23 rebels captured Bukavu, the capital of the eastern DRC’s South Kivu...

Governance Performance Index – South Africa 2024

by Good Governance Africa | Mar 13, 2024 | ANALYSIS, GPI, SADC-Publications, THE WICKED CONVERSATION, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

South Africa’s system of local government is presently undergoing its most widespread sequence of...

South Africa’s worsening water security crisis

by Leleti Maluleke | Oct 2, 2023 | Climate change, HSCC, THE GOVERNANCE REPORT, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the United Nations General Assembly on 19 September. He...

The wild cost of oil exploration: Operation Shell

by Busisipho Siyobi | Sep 20, 2023 | NRG, The wild cost of oil exploration, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

Recent significant oil and gas discoveries seen in the Karoo Basin and the Wild Coast of South...

How to resolve SA’s political accountability crisis

by Pranish Desai and Mxolisi Zondo | Jul 7, 2023 | ANALYSIS, THE WICKED CONVERSATION, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

South Africa’s constitution identifies accountability as one of the founding provisions of our...

Africa Day – GGA’s NRG Programme reflects on wins and challenges

by Good Governance Africa | May 24, 2023 | Climate change, Human Security, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

Over a third of the world’s mineral reserves are found in Africa. With the global shift towards a...

GGA urges independent panel on coalition politics crisis

by Pranish Desai and Helen Acton | Mar 2, 2023 | ANALYSIS, THE WICKED CONVERSATION | 0 |

Coalition politics has gained salience in the public imagination in recent months following...

The July 2021 unrest a year later – have the lessons been learned?

by Dr Craig Moffat and Stuart Mbanyele | Jul 21, 2022 | THE GOVERNANCE REPORT, THE WICKED CONVERSATION | 0 |

On 7 July 2021, former President Jacob Zuma began serving a 15-month prison sentence. His arrest...

Meaningful consultation with communities: what does it mean?

by Helen Acton | Apr 7, 2022 | The wild cost of oil exploration, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

It is high time for mining rights applicants to give indigenous communities, and customary law, the recognition and respect that they deserve.

Is betting on oil and gas the right choice for Africa?

by Stephen Buchanan-Clarke and Leleti Maluleke | Mar 31, 2022 | The wild cost of oil exploration, TRENDING ARTICLES | 0 |

A committed transition away from new oil and gas exploration opens the space for African states to allocate resources to a ‘leapfrogging’ development trajectory that can truncate the historical relationship between income growth and environmental degradation.