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Brazil Breaking BRICS?

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Brazil, BRICS, CHINA, Dilma Rousseff, DONALD TRUMP, France, India, Michel Temer, Russia, SOUTH AFRICA, UN, US, WTONo CommentsViews:

Published originally in The Conversation online (Nov 20th, 2016) under the title “Brazil is breaking with its south-south focus. What it means for BRICS”, this piece hints about... Read more

Cyril Ramaphosa Emerges as COSATU’s Next ANC leader

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ANC, COSATU, Dlamini-Zuma, JACOB ZUMA, Mandela, National Union, Ramaphosa, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

A leadership recruitment earthquake is unraveling in South Africa where the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has endorsed Cyril Ramaphosa, t... Read more

Underdeveloped American Democracy

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2016In: SpectacleTags: America, Angola, Arkansas State, Brazil, British, Canada, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, HILLARY CLINTON, ISIS, JACOB ZUMA, Mexico, Namibia, Robert Mugabe, SOUTH AFRICA, United Nations, Venezuela, Washington, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

By Okello Oculi, The notion of the United States of America as an ‘’underdeveloped country’’ was irreverently presented by Ira Sharkansky to the197... Read more

EDITORIAL

Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Ajaokuta, Aliko Dangote, CHINA, Egypt, Ethiopia, FGN, GSM, Ibadan, IBB, India, Kenya, LAGOS, Mambilla Plateau, Mozambique, Murtala Mohammed Airport, NATO, NIPSS, NITEL, OBASANJO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICA, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

The Dangote Insurgency Speaking at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS), Kuru in Jos on October 27th, 2016, Aliko Dangote, the Head of the Dangote conglome... Read more

Good Governance is our right, not a privilege

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: Policy & Governance, SpectacleTags: Algeria, ANC, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, GDP, MIF, Mo Ibrahim, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:

By Jay Naidoo The 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, the most comprehensive in Africa, launched on Monday by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, reveals that improvement in overall governance... Read more

Still, No Breakthrough on Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: Policy & Governance, SpectacleTags: Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, IIAG, Libya, Mauritius, Namibia, NIGERIA, Seychelles, Somalia, SOUTH AFRICA, South SudanNo CommentsViews:

By Max Bearak The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) — the most comprehensive survey of its kind — celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday with the release of a report that... Read more

Speaking to Nigeria From South Africa

Posted By: adminon: September 20, 2016In: SpectacleTags: AIDCJacob Zuma, ANC, BEE, CHINA, Eskom, Mohammadu Buhari, SOEs, SOUTH AFRICA, USNo CommentsViews:

By Jeff Rudin Mention the word Eskom and the standard response, once the eye-rolling and hair pulling is over, is near-unanimous cries of “restructure the monopoly! Break it up! Involve the... Read more

Will the ANC turn South Africa into a developmental welfare state?

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ANC, OECD, Pravin Gordhan, President Jacob Zuma, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Mark Ellyne South Africa is grappling with the possibility of a sovereign downgrade by global credit rating agencies. This will bring unnecessary econom... Read more

Nigeria: Kerry Seals Obama’s Visit

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2016In: FlashbackTags: BOKO HARAM, Brazil, buhari, George W. Bush, HIV/AIDS, India, Kenya, Lake Chad Basin, NIGERIA, Obama, SOUTH AFRICA, United Kingdom, VOANo CommentsViews:

“Similarly, Nigeria is a country that has always been aligned with us on global affairs, and it has Africa’s largest economy and population. For President Obama not to visit Nigeria wo... Read more

Africa: The Economist At It Again?

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, CHINA, DEMOCRACY, Economist, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA, westNo CommentsViews:

Remember The Economist, the London based global weekly. That’s the newspaper that declared Africa as a Hopeless Continent in 2000 in a cover choice and got everyone wondering where it got th... Read more