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Richard Jurgens

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Richard Jurgens

Richard Jurgens is editor of The Africa Governance Papers at Good Governance Africa. He is the author of The Many Houses of Exile and The Incident on Heron Island.

Nongovernmental organisations like Equal Education have played an important role in advocating for equality and social justice in South Africa.
ADVOCACY

NGOs will have to up their game in South Africa

Civil society organisations and other stakeholders will become increasingly important to maintaining the government’s legitimacy

  • Richard Jurgens
8 min read
Pelindaba is South Africa’s atomic research station. It now produces about 20 tons of silicon a year for international companies which is used in microchips for electronic components including the world supplier of isotopes for pharmaceuticals. This is where atomic bombs where produced in the 1970’s.
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

South African intelligence services are fluent in NoSpeak

This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it…

  • Richard Jurgens
18 min read