Britain’s vote to ditch the European Union offers the chance of a new beginning—not just for the EU, and the U.K., but for Africa. Since most countries on the continent gained independence in the 1960s and 1970s, they have mindlessly …
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You cannot legislate people out of poverty. You cannot regulate jobs into existence. Jobs need to be created, and at the moment, the South African government is slowly but surely suffocating businesses’ ability to create jobs by continuously adding more …
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Twenty-five years ago, on the eve of democratic transition, South African women were optimistic. They were confident of being included in democratic processes that would ensure greater representation for women and more spaces in the state to promote gender equality.…
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In 2013, in a Guardian article, celebrated Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiongo made an interesting observation. He said that over the years, the African Union (AU) had been reduced to a talking shop instead of a fighting club; invisible …
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Every passenger on every South African Express (SAX) flight is obscenely subsidized with money diverted from poverty relief and taxpayers by approximately R3,850 (R7,700 return). Assuming 50 passengers per flight on average, this is the equivalent to two RDP houses …
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I checked my Facebook feed this morning, Saturday, August 3rd, 2019, like I normally do almost every morning and I believe one of my greatest fear—or should I say positive anticipation—for Nigeria may have just been …
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Instead of righting the wrongs of apartheid, Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) will perpetuate the evils. Apartheid’s greatest travesty, of which one of the worst legacies is the specter of EWC today, was expropriation without compensation of black held land. Instead …
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President Paul Kagame of Rwanda recently rekindled the African quest for digital transformation at the Transform Africa Summit held in Kigali. President Kagame and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya called on other African leaders to speedily invest in technology across …
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Over 2,000 people have lost their lives in the ongoing crisis in Cameroon. Hundreds of thousands are displaced while about 30,000 have crossed the southern border into Nigeria. Unfortunately, Nigeria has its own Internally Displaced Persons problem to deal with …
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Marriage is an institution common to all cultures. Very often it’s accompanied by transfers – in most cases in the form of payments – between the families of the groom and the bride.
These payments can be categorized into two: …
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