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PARTNER CONTENT

Youth shaping the future of work: skills, innovation and opportunity

The conversation around youth employment is changing. It is no longer about waiting for jobs to open up. It is about how fast institutions can adapt to the speed at which young…

  • Hasina Kathrada
8 min read
The United Nations Development Programme’s Achim Steiner . (Photo by Hakan Akgun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
AFRICA CREDIT RATING AGENCIES

South Africa’s G20 presidency a game-changer for Africa’s global influence, says UNDP leader

The United Nations Development Programme’s Achim Steiner criticizes slow global response to Africa’s debt crisis

  • Sheree Bega
10 min read
The report shows that the coronavirus has exacerbated poverty and inequality in the country, with women and informal workers bearing the brunt of the economic downturn. (Paul Botes/M&G)
CORONAVIRUS

UN: SA recovery only in five years

The latest report shows the South Africa’s women will be the hardest hit demographic of the economic downturn

  • Thando Maeko
3 min read
As Europeans currently experience these short-lived restrictions on movement, it is an exceptional time to reflect on what Africans endure permanently in all of Europe’s name and the significance of freedom of movement to everyone in the world.
ADAMA DIENG

Seeds of Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ are in Europe

The continent’s greedy lending to Africa is driving the migration wave that fuels the European Union’s xenophobic politics

  • Vijay Prashad
7 min read
AIDS TREATMENT

The jewel loses the lustre

Hailed as one of the most prosperous and well-governed countries in Africa, the global economic crisis has forced Botswana to rethink the way forward.

  • Mandy Rossouw
7 min read