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/ 15 June 2007

Africa looks to China, India with hope and fear

Business and political leaders attending an annual conference meant to focus entrepreneurial attention on Africa hailed China’s and India’s huge appetite for raw materials as a powerful driving force to move the African economy up a gear. But the discussion at the World Economic Forum’s annual conference on Africa was tinged with anxiety.

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/ 15 June 2007

Zille questions govt plans to centralise public service

The government’s plans to centralise the public service, purportedly in the interests of improving ”delivery”, set alarm bells ringing, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Friday. ”The real aim must be bluntly stated: it is to centralise the African National Congress’s power, to erode the opposition’s chances of setting up alternative models of ‘delivery’,” she said.

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/ 15 June 2007

February 8 to 14 2008

Let’s stop the madness! Can Africa get it right? I ask this question as another African country, Chad, is in turmoil in the same old story of power and greed. It joins Kenya in a long list of countries that are tainting Africa’s image. Hardly a month into the new year and the continent is […]

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/ 15 June 2007

August 17 to August 23

Women’s rights? Oh sure … Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge’s dismissal says much about whether women’s rights really are a priority in South Africa. She has a long history as a women’s activist, serving on the parliamentary committee on the status of women and chairing the multiparty Parliamentary Women’s Group and the ANC Parliamentary Women’s Caucus. She has […]

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December 14 to December 20

Four questions for Zuma I don’t see Jacob Zuma as having the characteristics needed to lead us, both in the ANC and the country. Imagine newspapers across the world flashing the headline ”President of South Africa arrested for fraud and tax evasion”. Our economy would feel the pinch — no wonder he has been telling […]