Countries - including many in Africa - have moved towards democracy incrementally. They have zig-zagged and sometimes regressed. Events in Zimbabwe should be seen in this light.
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A week after the army issued its limp-wristed and ambiguous statement that Mugabe should go, he remains in place, and a new avenue - impeachment - is being pursued to get rid of him.
Alternative scenarios for tertiary funding in South Africa are set out in a completely separate report from the Davis Tax Committee drawing from work done by the higher education department.
The protracted political crisis in Zimbabwe has worsened since President Mugabe fired vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa. Now the military has entered the fray, raising fears a coup is imminent.
South Africa’s governing party is invoking concepts and emulating strategies first developed by authoritarian regimes in Eurasia.
The imposition of the fee free higher education proposal on South Africa’s National Treasury without due consideration represents an escalation of the state capture led by President Jacob Zuma.
South African President Jacob Zuma’s efforts to promote his unpopular nuclear project are weakening him politically but he still seems keen to pursue it.
A different form of state capture is underway in South Africa’s rural areas where traditional leaders are selling off people’s land to miners. But communities are fighting back.
South Africa’s finance minister’s medium term budget speech offered hope of potential economic game changes. But will he be bold enough to make them?
South Africa’s 2017 medium term budget reveals a growing gap between revenue and expenditure which places the country in a highly vulnerable financial state.
Will the Timol case create the necessary political will to open dozens more inquests into apartheid deaths? Maybe, but government machinery has proven to be rusty and extremely slow.
For many years, statelessness in Madagascar was spurred by racial and gender discrimination.
Business Leadership South Africa has in the recent past assumed a stinging position against public sector corruption. Bonang Mohale explains the stance taken by the lobby group.
Une visite des terres Maasai serait incomplète sans l’achat d’accessoires « typiques ». Or, ces derniers sont en réalité le résultat d’une rencontre de longue date entre l’Afrique et l’Europe.
Archaeology is not only about stones and bones: it is mainly about the people of the past. DNA is one way to get from the stones and the bones to the people and their stories.
How can we understand each other, especially when stereotypes cloud our view? An ethnographic movie captures a sense of the ‘other’ in an encounter between Maasai villagers and Dutch tourists.
Quels regards et quels clichés portent les uns sur les autres ? Une étude ethnographique a capturé via caméra ces instants de rencontre, entre une famille masaï et des touristes néerlandais.
South Africa’s five-year-old National Development Plan suffers from gross misinterpretation by different parties.
Colourful glass beads and red blankets play an important role in Maasai culture. But their origins are surprising, and provide an interesting insight into cultural exchanges between Europe and Africa.
The rapid penetration of internet technologies in Africa provides hope for e-commerce’s continued growth. Potential online stores need to understand what draws or pushes customers away.
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in Tourism Geography, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Economist at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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Economist, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Art, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
