South Africa’s SEZs can help develop skills and industries, beneficiate raw materials and diversify exports if certain measures are put in place
Our post-1994 agreements are in desperate need of a new society-wide perspective
The party must rid itself of corruption, cadre deployment, incompetence and patriarchy but it’s not in the interest of some leaders and members to do so
The president’s leadership strategy of trying to unite opposing groups within the ANC through key appointments across the board has failed
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council’s right to veto decisions – often in their own interests – and their laxity in implementing reform proposals are among the international body’s crucial failings
Incompetence, corruption and cronyism are part of many liberation organisations for complex reasons, but such organisational culture tends to persist into government.
The past cannot be erased, but leaders can choose how to respond to it and how to forge a better future
Companies must behave like model democratic citizens if they are to earn and retain society’s social licence to operate
Reporters in Eswatini, Egypt, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia and Cameroon have been arrested
Politicians must desist from blaming the actions of the former oppressor for their own decisions