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People Power Against Fake Drugs

Franklin Cudjoe & Julian Harris ACCRA – Deadly new mutations of diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis threaten over half the world’s population, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gates Foundation warned recently. One major culprit is counterfeit and substandard drugs that can provoke mutations that resist real medicines. Crackdowns, however, do not address [...]

Citizens are the Real Heroes

Rejoice Ngwenya I am not a street activist, but more from the irritable pool of intellectual key-punchers who hope that Robert Mugabe and his cronies are literate enough to notice how collective resentment and hatred for shameless, fascist dictatorship is better expressed in the written word. This I say because there is a fallacy pervading [...]

The North should not use Climate Talks to put South on the Road to Permanent Poverty

By Franklin Cudjoe & Richard Tren As diplomats and delegates from the around the world gather in Copenhagen this month for a global climate change summit, a major rift is developing between rich and poor countries. The question is whether or not developing nations should be permitted to harness their natural resources to lift their [...]

South Africa’s Dangerous Flirt with Socialism

Themba Nolutshungu’s compelling evidence of the genetic relationship between Communism and Apartheid is ground breaking. He should know better, for he has lived in the worst of the two worlds – Apartheid South Africa under the blistering abuse by the Boers and of late African National Congress’ South Africa that pays little homage to transparency. [...]

Downsides to the 2010 Budget Outlook

This quarter, the national budget, and macroeconomic management generally, haven’t been for IMANI the priorities they were in the early half of 2009. Energy policy and the NHIS, and how these are affected by the subsidy regime, have occupied the bulk of our attention. But now that the budget is approaching, it seems important that [...]