Book Review: The Political Economy of China-US relations: Digital Futures and African Agency, by Mzukisi Qobo This book is a timely and important read which shines the spotlight on many contemporary challenges...
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Advanced nuclear technology leaves coal in the dust
Nuclear technology has made great advances with small modular reactors, which could potentially help South Africa transition away from coal to a cleaner energy source. Leleti Maluleke, junior researcher for GGA's Human...
Youth unemployment betrays the promise and sacrifice of 1976
Six years ago, Julian Brown wrote The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976. In a 2017 review of that book, Toivo Asheeke wrote that Brown “successfully expands our understanding of the Soweto...
Insights into the Public Protector’s impeachment
Busisipho Siyobi, GGA's lead researcher in the Natural Resource Governance Programme, chats to Helen Acton, GGA researcher, about the President's decision to suspend the Public Protector Busiswe Mkhwebane. To read the...
Youth Day: Empowering African youth
In 1991 the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU) instituted the Day of the African Child (DAC), in memory of the June 16 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South...
South Africa foreign policy: Ambiguous or misunderstood?
Misalignment in South Africa’s foreign policy strategy has been the subject of much recent scrutiny and criticism. Could the issues involved be due to ambiguities in South African foreign policies or are they due to...
