Envisioning a new African university | by Steve Sharra

The month of October marks eight months since lecturers at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, stopped teaching, demanding guarantees of academic freedom. Despite verbal assurances from President Bingu wa Mutharika for a win-win solution to the problems that...

Looking to a new Africa | by Jean-Marc Ela

Economically, Africa is considered a poor and marginalised continent. And since the end of the cold war it has no longer been of any strategic or diplomatic importance to the great powers. Except when there are emergencies requiring humanitarian aid, no-one is really...

Looking to a new Africa | by Jean-Marc Ela

Economically, Africa is considered a poor and marginalised continent. And since the end of the cold war it has no longer been of any strategic or diplomatic importance to the great powers. Except when there are emergencies requiring humanitarian aid, no-one is really...
Vavi meets Sarkozy 2 November 2011 | by Zwelinzima Vavi

Vavi meets Sarkozy 2 November 2011 | by Zwelinzima Vavi

COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s, input to a meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Cannes, France, I am a trade unionist from South Africa a country with the highest rate of unemployment when compared to other middle-income countries. South Africa...