Top 60 Most Transformative CEOs Impacting The Economy
Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua has had a brief but eventful career in elective politics.
African countries are stuck on the free movement of people. How to break the logjam
Senegal and Rwanda have a combination of visa-free access and visa on arrival policies for all Africans.
Marriages of inconvenience: The fraught politics of coalitions in South Africa
South Africa’s political parties would do well to learn from Ireland, where the three largest political parties negotiated a coalition treaty over one hundred pages long.
South Africa’s labour market trends from 2009 to 2019: a lost decade?
By Derek Yu, Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape and Charles Adams Lecturer, University of the Western Cape Unemployment remains one of South Africa’s most pressing economic and social…
Resolving tensions between global development goals and local aspirations
People’s voices, aspirations and dreams–less readily accessible–must be taken just as seriously.
Why have South Africans been on a looting rampage? Research offers insights
Research findings on looting, nonetheless, suggest that such phenomena are rarely caused by one thing.
Conflating morality and the law do South Africa’s governing party no good
Morality shapes people’s lives, including their thoughts and actions, on the basis of what society generally accepts as right and wrong. It is used to check people’s “self-interested, emotional, or sentimental reactions to serious questions of human conduct”.
Ethiopia’s next poll could be more competitive. But big challenges remain
Ethiopia’s party system is extremely volatile. Political parties are weak and fragmented. And the elections will take place amid the upheaval in Tigray, one of the country’s 10 federal regions.
Why the African Union’s decision on a top post is being seen as a litmus test
The current AU’s reform journey began in July 2016 when the assembly appointed Rwandan president Paul Kagame to do a study on its institutional reform. The assessment by the panel led by Kagame was unequivocal; the union was not fit for purpose.
Algerian players lift the Afcon trophy
Football and politics: when Algeria won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
Following on the heels of Bouteflika’s resignation amid massive protests and the nomination of a caretaker president, the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations came in the right time.