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The middle-class dream is moving beyond millennials’ reach
Do you feel like your cost of living is rising? If so, you’re not alone. Years of low income growth...
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Why African governments must respect signed oil and gas contracts
Last week, a commercial court in the United Kingdom gave reason to a claim by engineering company Process and Industrial...
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Will This looming Recession Sink the Cryptocurrency Market?
Recession - In a tumultuous day of trading, the Dow crashed by 800 points, yesterday, as an ominous recession indicator...
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How the search for football’s next big thing is fuelling modern-day slave trade
It’s estimated that more than 15,000 children are trafficked into Europe every year with false hopes of making it as professional footballers....
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Why Sidama statehood demand threatens to unravel Ethiopia’s federal system
Ethiopia’s ethnic federal arrangement was designed to empower ethnic groups with the right to self-administration rights. But it’s facing a...
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Universities in South Africa need to rediscover their higher purpose
By Peter Vale and Harry Boyte For over two decades South African higher education has been dominated by three successive...
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Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng should stop running to the media to sow division in the country
JOHANNESBURG - Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng should stop running to the media to sow division in the country, he has...
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Democracy in Africa: success stories that have defied the odds
When I first said that I was going to write a book about the history of democracy in Africa, quite a...
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Zuma shows, once again, that he’s adept at playing to the gallery
If there’s one thing South Africans can agree on, it’s that former President Jacob Zuma has always been adept at...
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Inclusion is essential to our survival – UN Boss Amina Mohammed rallies countries
By Amina Mohammed On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations...
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