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It is not unusual these days to walk into any music store and find a category called ‘World Music’ – most commonly displayed alphabetically, according to country and not artist, quite unlike the other products in the shop. The term has become a marketing ploy and a...
The South African government is planning to order six nuclear reactors at an estimated cost of R1 trillion. What would the consequences of this be?Before we can understand this, we need to have some other plan to compare it to, which requires an understanding of how...
The economic storm triggered by the 2008 financial crash in the USA and Europe led to the loss of more than one million jobs in South Africa. Today we know that the crisis never really abated.How could it? Claims for hefty profits, wheedled through strange and complex...
The economic crisis that has shaken the world may have started in Wall Street, but it has been made much worse by the actions of both the European institutions and European member states.Much of the so-called debt crisis was caused not by states spending too much, but...
COSATU GS says the current two tier system is wasteful and unsustainable. Zwelinzima Vavi's Keynote address to the Emerging Market Healthcare gala dinner, Cape Town, November 19 2011: Thank you very much for inviting me to speak at this prestigious gathering of...
Not judging by this year’s long-range response from the National Planning Commission’s talented technical, political, civil society and business thinkers. Its fascinating diagnostic analysis of why South Africa is beginning to slide off the rails is negated by the...
The economic crisis that has shaken the world may have started in Wall Street but it has been made much worse by the actions of both the European institutions and European member states. Much of the so-called debt crisis was caused not by states spending too much, but...
The survivors of one of the worst genocides in modern history are fast losing hope that they will ever be compensated. ALMOST two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, in which up to 1 million people died, hundreds of thousands of survivors are still waiting for...
The ongoing eurozone crisis is often projected in the media, somewhat superficially, as wholly the product of Greece's financial profligacy. There are, however, more fundamental reasons for this turmoil. The causes are to found, as the following analysis shows, in the...