The JSE took a hammering last week. The All-Share Index (ASI) dropped by roughly 4.5% on Thursday alone, wiping out nearly R1 trillion. Hundreds of thousands of South African employees’ pensions are represented in the...
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Why are Africa’s farmers struggling?
Rising food and fertiliser prices have sparked debate among analysts about the dependency of the African continent on food and agricultural imports and its sensitivity to external geopolitical shocks. What can be done...
Access to information is guaranteed in Kenya’s 2022 elections
Contested election outcomes are common in Kenya and have been experienced in every election cycle, increasing in intensity since the advent of multipartyism some 30 years ago. The situation has resulted in numerous...
Tracking progress on the localisation of the SDGs: Lessons for the West African sub-region from Ghanaian Local Governments
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent ambitious and bold initiatives to holistically deal with ecological, social and economic dimensions of development. The 17 goals and accompanying 69 targets represent...
SA municipal elections – Unpacking the coalition puzzle
As the 1 November 2021 date for the local government elections (LGE) draws closer, calls for coalition politics are gaining momentum. Political analyst William Gumede predicted before the 2019 general election, “It...
Swapo – Namibia’s sinking ship
Namibia’s liberation movement is quickly losing ground At the first cabinet meeting of 2020, on 4 February, Namibian president Hage Geingob, in a custom he had started in his first full year in office in 2015, titled...
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