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Good Governance is our right, not a privilege

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: 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: 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

South Africa is Africa’s largest economy (again). But what does it mean?

Posted By: adminon: August 13, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ECONOMY, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

Yesterday, Intervention published a piece titled “Africa’s Largest Economy: Between Nigeria and South Africa”. Against that background, we found this piece below interesting. Interestingly t... Read more

Africa as a text

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa as a text, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

Democracy in Action in South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ANC, DEMOCRACY, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

Results of election into Municipal councils in South Africa held last Wednesday has not meant a clean sweep of the African National Congress, (ANC) as feared in some quarters although it did... Read more

Results in South African Election Awaited

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2016In: SpectacleTags: ELECTION, NELSON MANDELA, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

A popular intervention in the management of power is underway in South Africa where the results of yesterday elections into mayoral and local representatives are due out shortly. Nothing is... Read more