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The government’s second National Drug Master Plan is not producing results
In 1999 the national government introduced its National Drug Master Plan. The five key areas it planned to tackle were crime, youth, a commitment...
Minister Motshekga’s actions is a death nail for the African Child
The announcement by the minister of basic education to formalise the General Education Certificate (GEC) has been met with outrage and correctly so. Hendrick...
What exactly is the Democratic Alliance’s economic policy?
The latest economic review and outlook of the Western Cape, as presented by the new Finance MEC David Maynier is the classic reflection of...
Does saving Denel mean arming repressive regimes?
Denel has been in urgent need of a lifeline beyond government bailouts, but if keeping Denel afloat means arming some of the most repressive...
A strident call for a total overhaul at the UN General Assembly
In the midst of simmering global tensions in this year’s 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York staged many of the...
Too much complacency, not enough prophetic insight
Recent events have had a ring of “déjà vu” that bothers me. We are seeing polarization that to some extent lines up along the racial...
The Johnson and Trump crisis offer lessons for emerging democracies
Lenin once wrote an article entitled Combustible Material in World Politics (Collected Works, 1908) but the amount of combustible material in the present world situation dwarfs...
INNOVATION
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: calling on Africa for an education revolution
From Cape Town to Cairo, Africa is a continent bursting with promise. The African Development Bank puts GDP growth for African economies in 2019...
EDUCATION
Writing our own stories: Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe
As calls for the decolonisation of knowledge continue to reverberate through the halls of our teaching and learning institutions, one solution is to regale...
ECONOMICS
The economics of renewable energy in South Africa
There are controversies and contradictions around energy in South Africa, to a point where the modus operandi of supplying electricity have been highly politicized...
