Zambia’s new president will have to balance austerity and the high expectations of the many unemployed young people and struggling people who voted for him.
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Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.
Mary has acquired popularity among celebrities of late. A religion scholar writes about how for nearly 2,000 years, the mother of Jesus has been viewed as an exemplar by different Christian groups.
The 1988 murder of the exiled ANC leader has never been solved – but by raising awareness and targeting core viewers, the film aims to help change that.
The Angolan political elite lost an extraordinary opportunity to improve significantly the country’s constitution.
Whoever wins the elections will face two key challenges: reviving the country’s democratic credentials and stimulating the economy.
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
There is no substance to the view that poor people are lazy and prefer to live on handouts from the state rather than seek work.
Despite the relative political stability over the years, Tanzania needs a new constitution to address contemporary challenges and strengthen institutions.
Frelimo, which governs Mozambique, has squandered the enormous political capital it enjoyed at independence. It now remains in power through violence, intimidation, harassment, and threats.
South Africa can’t possibly remain the same country in the aftermath of this mayhem. There are just too many storms ahead to simply continue unchanged.
Angola needs a mixed electoral system. This would promote accountability through the direct election of representatives from constituencies.
South Africa has many problems. But, as Jacob Zuma has found out, the strength of its rule of law and the independence of its judiciary should not be underestimated.
The Malawi court’s decision provides a roadmap for future challenges to the death penalty in other southern African countries.
Denying people the right to opt out of the traditional court system conflicts with the notion of customary law as a voluntary and consensual system of law.
Many unemployed young people are engaged in a variety of economic activities. These may not necessarily be recognised as a form of self employment or informal employment.
The new governing elite mistakenly believes that the goal of a democratic South Africa is simply to extend to everyone what whites enjoyed under apartheid.
Ethiopian history shows that the demands of its young people can’t go unaddressed for long.
Rethinking capitalism requires that the primary focus should be on the distribution of economic power as the potential leading causal factor driving inequality.
German’s commitment of €1.1bn for development projects in Namibia over 30 years is too cheap a price to pay for remorse.
The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
The problem in municipalities is not that the wrong people are being chosen. It is that the wrong people are doing the choosing – not only of candidates but of what they do if elected.
The appointment of judges has hitherto been an obscure and oftentimes clandestine affair. This has produced incompetent judges and led to claims that the judiciary is beholden to the executive.
The solution to a defective, sexist Criminal Code ban can be found in the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
To build a political culture that supports democracy in South Africa, civic education needs to move beyond voter education.