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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 [...]
The significance of the fall of the Berlin wall – an African perspective
ByTemba A Nolutshung I first became aware of the existence of the Berlin Wall, without appreciating its political significance, soon after its construction in 1961. In the early 1960s I was cutting my political teeth, becoming aware of the forces that rule the world. The all-pervasive apartheid system that was in force at the time [...]
The GT-Vodafone Mess: Back to Basics
It is sad the turn the protracted GT-Vodafone issue appears now to be taking. Vodafone has already had to write down the value of the investment by more than $400 million, and with all the uncertainty surrounding the future prospects of the new entity, there is every potential for further financial instability at the former [...]
Botswana’s Dynasty of Good Democracy
There is something fundamentally flawed with so-called ‘democracies’ that perpetuate political, monarchical or tribal dynasty. In Swaziland where The Mswatis rule by decree, in the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] where the Kabilas cheat at the ballot box; the Bongos, the Kaddafis and the Mugabes who enforce their will using AK47s – we Africans have [...]
South Africa’s obsession with Trivia
By Rejoice Ngwenya, Harare South Africans are a strange lot with a knack for trivia even when confronted with life-threatening tragedies. One would have thought they have learnt a lesson after the blistering criticism for the unforgivable xenophobic attacks on fellow African aliens last year. But now, even where the FIFA World Cup 2010 clock [...]
Kenya's Reform Agenda may be dead on arrival
The crude images of post election violence of 2007 still sticks in the memories of the Kenyan people with a morbid fear there could be a repeat come the next elections, in 2012. There is strong evidence that tribal and ethnic groups are arming themselves for a possible showdown. But the uneasy calm is explanatory. [...]
