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The Freedom Charter does not have an obvious interpretation which stands in place from generation to generation. How we interpret the document is... →
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Electoral Politics: From competition and contest to potential conflict
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South Africa is scheduled to hold an election in 2024. It is a much-anticipated one, since speculation is rife that the ANC may likely lose its... →
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Fiscal consolidation: facing up to reality
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If tax increases are to be avoided in this year’s revised Budget, there will have to be clear commitments to expenditure adjustments. In this... →
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SA’s Special Investigating Unit shows how corruption can be beaten
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In South Africa’s struggling anti-corruption landscape, leadership and operational independence are among the factors enabling the unit’s success.... →
Latest South African Institute of International Affairs
South Africa’s G20 Presidency: Placing African Concerns on the Global Table
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South Africa’s G20 presidency comes at a pivotal moment for rethinking the forum’s role in a shifting global order. South Africa took over the... →
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Transparency needed
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South Africa’s recent trade policy interventions have been nowhere near as attention grabbing as President Donald Trump’s April 2 Rose Garden... →
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Spanish blackout puts renewables in the crossfire
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I went to Spain many years ago and visited the impressive Red Electrica, a world-class national grid and transmission system operator (TSO) that is... →
Latest The Conversation
4 things every peace agreement needs – and how the DRC-Rwanda deal measures up
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The governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda concluded a peace treaty in June 2025, aimed at ending a decades-long war... →
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Clinics for health care access, not border posts
Other Opinions
A disturbing pattern has emerged in the past weeks at public clinics across Gauteng. Groups of protestors have blockaded clinics, denying access to... →
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The Health of the People Must be the Supreme Law
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Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of... →
