Digital diplomacy has emerged as one of the most topical issues in the post-Covid-19 pandemic period, especially in Africa, where diplomats and government officials have resorted to the use of the internet, social...
good governance
No Huawei, no cry
In May 2021 US president Joe Biden signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency” and blocked American companies from doing business with foreign tech companies on the grounds that they posed risks to...
A theatre for competition
Book Review: The Political Economy of China-US relations: Digital Futures and African Agency, by Mzukisi Qobo This book is a timely and important read which shines the spotlight on many contemporary challenges...
Advanced nuclear technology leaves coal in the dust
Nuclear technology has made great advances with small modular reactors, which could potentially help South Africa transition away from coal to a cleaner energy source. Leleti Maluleke, junior researcher for GGA's Human...
Youth unemployment betrays the promise and sacrifice of 1976
Six years ago, Julian Brown wrote The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976. In a 2017 review of that book, Toivo Asheeke wrote that Brown “successfully expands our understanding of the Soweto...
Insights into the Public Protector’s impeachment
Busisipho Siyobi, GGA's lead researcher in the Natural Resource Governance Programme, chats to Helen Acton, GGA researcher, about the President's decision to suspend the Public Protector Busiswe Mkhwebane. To read the...
