Water, instead of being a public service, has become an increasingly expensive service, leaving those at the bottom of the social ladder to fight for basic survival.
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Rebuilding the Zimbabwean state: an idea whose time has come? | by Thomas Deve
Beginning in 2000, Zimbabwe experienced a decade of unprecedented political and economic crisis that was only temporarily alleviated by the inception of a government of national unity in 2010. Despite the occasional populist and radical pronouncements of the head of...
Angola helps out Portugal | by Augusta Conchiglia
The former colony has become an unexpected source of jobs and investment for Portugal in the global downturn. Angola is Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy, after South Africa and Nigeria (1). It is already one of Africa’s biggest oil producers, with an average...
Kenyans should reject proposed security law | by Atunga Atuti OJ
It is not lost on Kenyans that once upon a time when we were working on the final draft of the constitution ahead of the referendum, some clever fellow who we never got to know inserted the words ‘subject to national security’ which would have altered the spirit and...
Right2Know Campaign – Week of Action: 19 – 27 October 2010
A responsive and accountable democracy that can meet the basic needs of our people is built upon transparency and the free flow of information. The gains of South Africans’ struggle for freedom are threatened by the Secrecy Bill (the Protection of Information Bill)...
Consign the Info Bill to the Dustbin of History
By Terry BellIn 1993, as the prospect of a non-racist democracy loomed, the last apartheid president, F. W. de Klerk and his minions, ordered the destruction of tonnes of files, microfilm, audio and computer tapes and disks. Information about state-sponsored murders,...
Civil Society Statement on Protection of Information Bill
Let the Truth be Told - Stop the Secrecy Bill! A responsive and accountable democracy that can meet the basic needs of our people is built upon transparency and the free flow of information. The gains of South Africans’ struggle for freedom are threatened by the...




