South Africa needs to re-calibrate to focus on job-rich investment
A generation of young people have grown up in post-apartheid South Africa, have not experienced the racially oppressive laws which characterized the apartheid regime, and have had the privileged of growing up in a democratic country. Despite these accomplishments,...
United States pushes regime-change in Venezuela
In its simplest sense, sovereignty is the principle of independent and autonomous power within a state, specifically as it relates to other states. Some pundits have advanced the belief that globalization has weakened and perhaps even destroyed the distinction between...
FOCUSSING ON GROWTH – An effective continental free trade area agreement
African countries are forging ahead with the continental free trade area agreement, with the continents largest economy, South Africa, having recently ratified AfCFTA in its National Parliament. The idea of a continental free trade area was adopted by the African...
Giving Tech a human face : re-thinking South Africa’s manufacturing sector
According to Stats SA, ICT in South Africa is currently larger than agriculture in terms of economic production. This is despite the fact that more people work in the agricultural sector. While ICT is skills-intensive, its benefits are far reaching as it...