Asylum seekers queue outside the Home Affairs office in Cape Town to extend their asylum seeker permits.
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The White Paper’s proposals are vague and seek to solve problems that are not about immigration.
ANC supporters show support for corruption accused and suspended party secretary general Ace Magashule outside court in Bleomfontein.
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To his credit, former South African president Thabo Mbeki set up anti-corruption institutions that survived his own efforts to erode them.
No longer sharing names.
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The institutional design of BRIN allows for political intervention, showing how the Indonesian government is unwilling to prioritise research and technology.
Thuli Madonsela, professor of law and former Public Protector of South Africa.
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The first of a series of fatal flaws in the idea is about where to draw the line.
Former South African government minister Nomvula Mokonyane, a leading member of the ruling ANC, at the commission probing grand corruption.
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Corruption has been a constant feature of South African political life for much of the past 350 years; solutions will also take time.
East Asian countries have looked up to Japan as a model of success.
With the right leadership, mindset and policies African countries can achieve, even exceed, the growth and development successes of Asian counterparts.