The Governance Report
GGA webinar series: The SA 2020 Scenarios Project
By Derek Davey Pockets of excellence still exist: we must just learn how to harness them In 2002, a group of young South Africans, selected for their acknowledged leadership potential to...
De Beers Botswana needs robust joint venture partnerships to sustain its future
By Michael Oabona Kgengwenyane A review of the paper by Sheila Khama titled “Joint Venture Agreement - Inside the companies that operationalise agreements between Botswana and De Beers - Outlived their value or future Icons?”. Sheila’s paper comes...
How will South Africans vote in 2024?
The 2024 national and provincial South African elections will likely prove the most important elections since the seminal 1994 elections. The country faces mounting socio-economic challenges including high unemployment, an energy crisis, water...
GGA webinar series: The SA 2020 Scenarios Project
By Derek Davey Pockets of excellence still exist: we must just learn how to harness them In 2002, a group of young South Africans, selected for their acknowledged leadership potential to scenario-plan the country’s future, gathered in Stellenbosch over a period of a...
De Beers Botswana needs robust joint venture partnerships to sustain its future
By Michael Oabona Kgengwenyane A review of the paper by Sheila Khama titled “Joint Venture Agreement - Inside the companies that operationalise agreements between Botswana and De Beers - Outlived their value or future Icons?”. Sheila’s paper comes...
How will South Africans vote in 2024?
The 2024 national and provincial South African elections will likely prove the most important elections since the seminal 1994 elections. The country faces mounting socio-economic challenges including high unemployment, an energy crisis, water...
Expert Analysis
Zimbabwe Elections Tracker 2023
Introduction On 23 August, the incumbent president of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa of ZANU-PF, will seek another five-year term....
Africa and the tyranny of the cult of mediocrity
It is a piercing indictment of African liberation sensibility when, like some biblical Jews in the long desert to Canaan who demanded that Moses...
The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a “dream” in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging....
Zimbabwean project a chance to transform Africa’s mining sector
Africa’s mining sector must institute critical reforms if it is to avert the deepening of the resource curse. Increasing global demand for...
Corruption is a cancerous curse
In their excellent 2009 book, Violence and Social Orders, the late Douglass North and his co-authors make a compelling case that, throughout...
Sudan – From political turmoil to armed conflict
Sudan has been in crisis all along from the time of independence. Though there was a promising start in the immediate post-independence years, the...
How to silence the guns in Cabo Delgado
Over the past year, violence and armed conflict caused about 55 000 fatalities on the African continent, an increase of almost 10% since 2021....
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