South African investigative journalists and civil society played a crucial role in bringing a country in the clutches of patronage networks back from the brink.
US President Donald Trump after sacking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Tshepo Gwatiwa, PhD, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) and Michael Noel Sam, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Free movement in Africa might be needed but more thought is needed for successful implementation.
When paperwork, forms and bureaucracy start to dominate, universities suffer.
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Corporates are willing to embrace corporate social responsibility initiatives. But many fail due to cultural insensitivity and misplaced communication strategies.
A vendor at the Sigida Market, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Meeting the challenges from the opposition will strengthen the ANC’s dominance. How well its new leadership copes will become clearer over the next few months.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has led social and economic transformation.
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University
Chair of the Board of Trustees and Head of African Futures & Innovation at the Institute for Security Studies. Extraordinary Professor in the Centre of Human Rights, University of Pretoria