When Cameroon closed universities, primary and high schools on 17 March as part of preventive measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Tongwa Francis was left without a job. The energetic young man had been...
unemployment
COVID-19: In South Africa, a constitutional crisis and even worse inequality
Flattening the curves When President Cyril Ramaphosa stepped up to the podium on 15 March 2020, to announce a National State of Disaster, 10 days after the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the country, there was...
A long and potholed road: Sustainable stock exchanges
Markets around the world are adopting the environmental, social and good governance agenda, but “integrated reporting” faces problems in Africa By Richard Jurgens In August 2012 police fired on a crowd of striking...
Chasing money away
Namibia: the new nationalism A raft of legislation introduced since last year may have the opposite effect from the one claimed By Frederico Links Since taking office on March 21st last year, President Hage Geingob’s...
Blow, wind, blow
Southern Africa: economic nationalism ‘Empowerment’ benefits political elites while businesses are spooked and citizens are left with nothing but empty promises By Ray Ndlovu A wind of economic nationalism is blowing...
CASE STUDY: Mbizana, a rural South African municipality
In Mbizana, informal businesses keep some afloat Last year, GGA published its first local government survey, which ranked South Africa’s 234 local and metro municipalities according to a select number of factors...
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