Thinking about insurance: clever concept of 'rebooting' 2020; Simple aspirations of people who have seen the world turned upside down...
Brendan Seery 8 Sep 2020
As the world celebrated Pride month this past June, the issue of same-sex marriages in South Africa came before Parliament again, for consideration of the Civil Union Amendment Bill to address and enforce the existing rights of same-sex couples...
Asher Ndebele 27 Jul 2020
These are challenging times for Africa and the rest of our global village...
Amina J. Mohammed 28 May 2020
Central Africa is fighting to maintain momentum in its battle with malaria in the face of various health challenges, climate change and other threats...
23 Oct 2019
The 2019 Open Design Afrika (ODA) Festival will be held at venues across Cape Town - with Castle of Good Hope as the main hub - from 18 to 27 October...
18 Sep 2019
For governments to function optimally, there must be a good relationship between politicians and administrators. This "political-administrative interface" is a key theme of public administration, both in theory and in practice...
Tania Ajam 13 May 2019
Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa's unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent's young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed...
Aubrey Hruby 2 May 2019
"You don't negotiate with China!" I was quickly told when I started interviewing African public servants about their infrastructure deals with Beijing...
Folashade Soule 9 Jan 2019
Within the past decade, the amount of agricultural produce that medium-scale farms contribute to countries' national output has risen rapidly. In some countries, medium-sized farms now account for roughly 40% of the country's marketed agricultural produce...
Thomas Jayne and Milu Muyanga 18 Dec 2018
Government needs to examine the possibility of introducing a national registry for protection orders, says President Cyril Ramaphosa...
2 Nov 2018
How many of you reading this have not had to bite your tongues as you were rudely, or inefficiently, dealt with by a government employee?
Brendan Seery 22 Oct 2018
A trust, which will disburse funds for mine workers who contracted silicosis and tuberculosis, is to be established in April 2019...
17 Oct 2018
The latest reshuffling of South Africa's finance minister, following the resignation of Nhlanhla Nene and appointment of Tito Mboweni, may have negative origins but it brings with it some positive energy...
Jannie Rossouw 11 Oct 2018
Egypt is the latest country to build a new capital city from scratch, with ambitions to move parliament away from Cairo as early as summer 2019...
Nuno Pinto and Aya Badawy 28 Sep 2018
Politicians, civil servants and people in Cape Town's property industry are at a crossroads...
Jonty Cogger and Jared Rossouw 13 Sep 2018
Payroll fraud is among the costliest of economic crimes...
Bruce van Wyk 23 Aug 2018
It can't be easy sitting down to come up with an acceptable, non-offensive, advertising idea to promote a business whose stock in trade is, essentially, dead bodies...
Brendan Seery 7 Aug 2018
Last month, at a conference on African Inequalities co-organised by our school and the London School of Economics, the first audience question came from a young woman...
Alan Hirsch 6 Jul 2018
The housing shortage has come to a head this year with a massive increase in land occupations...
GroundUp editors 28 Jun 2018
Suspended SA Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane racked up a dubious list of "achievements" as head of the nation's tax collection authority, says investigative journalist Jacques Pauw...
22 Mar 2018
The DA says a freeze on increases to public sector salaries in 2018-19 would save R38bn and render unnecessary the need to raise the rate of value added tax (VAT) by one percentage point as proposed in the budget...
Linda Ensor 1 Mar 2018
The NGO sexual exploitation and abuse scandal has grown ever larger, engulfing many other organisations other than Oxfam...
Angela Crack 1 Mar 2018
PARIS, France - President Emmanuel Macron's government unveiled on Monday plans to push through reforms of France's mammoth rail system, daring to tread where his predecessors have failed...
27 Feb 2018
Cities around the world have been financing their long-term investment needs through municipal bonds for centuries...
Jeremy Gorelick 16 Feb 2018
Thousands of university students are getting ready to tackle the 2018 academic year as public universities open their doors for learning...
5 Feb 2018
UJ's Africa Evidence Network is launching the first annual Africa Evidence Leadership Award, to recognise and honour people who have raised the awareness of evidence-informed decision-making in Africa...
31 Jan 2018
Markus Jooste, the billionaire face of South Africa's biggest ever corporate scandal, grew up in the world of horse racing and gambling...
Kyle Cowan and Ann Crotty 11 Dec 2017
Public health facilities are missing an opportunity to reduce HIV transmission because they are ill-equipped to meet the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM)...
20 Nov 2017
Governments are reforming to woo private capital, according to the UN, in this third and last part of the partnership in Africa series...
Kingsley Ighobor 20 Sep 2017
The government has taken an initiative to amend the National Land Transport Act in an effort to accommodate e-hailing services which include Uber, Zebra, and Taxify...
28 Jul 2017
The search is on for alternatives to big plantations and estates that can bring in private investment without dispossessing local people...
Ruth Hall, Dzodzi Tsikata and Ian Scoones 24 May 2017
In crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, people in the capital increasingly turn to street hawkers to feed themselves and their families cheaply…
15 Feb 2017
Traders and hawkers armed with brooms and bags sweep pavements and scoop up rubble in Benin's economic capital Cotonou, where the authorities have ordered a vast city cleanup...
3 Feb 2017
Algeria has adopted a 2017 budget that will see taxes raised to compensate for falling revenues from its key oil sector, officials said on Wednesday...
29 Dec 2016
Riot police in Zimbabwe fired tear gas and beat up opposition protesters marching Wednesday through Harare against the new 'bond note currency'...
2 Dec 2016
Experts call for bold and creative policies for Africa to facilitate industrialisation...
Masimba Tafirenyika 21 Nov 2016
How much does government spend on ICT? Is it enough? And is it well spent? We hear much about lack of coordination, shortages of key skills...
11 Nov 2016
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said she will recommend the institution approve a $12 billion loan for Egypt...
9 Nov 2016
Finance minister, Pravin Gordhan says we have to find more effective ways of people accessing medicines...
3 Nov 2016
References to supply chain problems in the public sector as a catchall term for public procurement policies that lead to fruitless and wasteful expenditure are inaccurate and misleading...
Mungo Park 28 Oct 2016
A majority of rural households in Africa keep different livestock species. But only a small proportion can afford to keep good quality livestock...
Thumbi Mwangi 13 Oct 2016
The #feesmustfall movement has gained high exposure and news interest in the last year. Looking beyond the politics of the situation, I am a firm believer that access to universities should be free for deserving students. Keyword: deserving...
Jared Louw 21 Sep 2016
Too broke to pay for costly imports of rice and palm oil, Nigeria is looking to agriculture to help lift itself out of a recession...
7 Sep 2016
Zimbabwe has threatened to crack down on social media activists pressing to oust President Robert Mugabe's government, warning of the turmoil that followed the Arab Spring...
17 Aug 2016
The government of Zimbabwe's Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill would severely limit citizens' access to information...
11 Aug 2016
While 2016 might turn out to be difficult for South African consumers in two decades, next year may bring "moderate improvement" to the economy...
20 Jul 2016
South Africa's government is planning a major overhaul of its student funding system...
Temwa Moyo, Nimi Hoffman, Sioux McKennan 4 May 2016
The transformation of state broadcasters into public broadcasters as envisaged by the African Charter on Broadcasting has failed...
Hendrik Bussiek 3 May 2016
Until commodity prices crawl their way back to higher levels, there is little hope for South Africa's older economic sectors to create jobs...
28 Apr 2016
I have always been intrigued by the high levels of sophistication and development defining the standards of living and professionalism in different sectors and or industries of both the Western and Eastern worlds...
Patrick Matjila, Issued by Regent Business School 30 Mar 2016