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Teen pregnancies are a pervasive phenomenon in Kenya. Based on the most recent national figures, one in five girls in Kenya between 15 and 19 years has begun childbearing, and half of these pregnancies are unwanted.
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Last year two foreign journalists were detained in Tanzania. Both were members of the Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) – a non-governmental organization that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists. The country’s immigration department said they were …
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This presentation titled: “Changing Section 25 of South Africa’s Constitution to Enable Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) Akin to the Zimbabwenization of South Africa” was delivered by Rejoice Ngwenya of COMALISO, at the CYPSA Youth Conference on Sunday 16th of December …
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It is now well-known that South Africa’s parliament intends to amend the Constitution to allow the government to expropriate (forcibly seize) private property without being required to pay compensation. On November 15, 2018, the parliamentary Constitutional Review Committee finally officialized …
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This piece is the transcript of a lecture titled: “Expropriation Without Compensation: South Africa, Welcome to Zimbabwe,” delivered at the Conference on Security of Property Rights in Johannesburg, South Africa, organized by the Free Market Foundation, on November 20th, …
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This piece is the transcript of a lecture titled: “Expropriation Without Compensation: South Africa, Welcome to Zimbabwe,” delivered at the Conference on Security of Property Rights in Johannesburg, South Africa, organized by the Free Market Foundation, on November 20th, …
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The constitutional controversies surrounding the debates about the expropriation of farmlands from white farmers without compensation is already tearing South Africa apart and extreme care must be taken not to escalate it into a region-wide catastrophe. In pursuing this policy, …
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Later today, the South African Parliament will find out if constitutional changes allowing for the expropriation of privately-owned farmland without compensation will move forward. The Joint Constitutional Review Committee will deliver their verdict to the National Assembly, and if the …
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Discovery CEO Adrian Gore mentioned at the recent Leadership Summit that there is an element of “declinism” – a pessimism about the state of one’s country – in South Africa, and that it did not accurately represent the situation facing …
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The African integration project took several major steps this year. One of them was the African Union’s adoption of a protocol on the free movement of people. The move has been widely welcomed.
The free movement of Africans between African …
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