In many sub-Saharan African especially countries (DR Congo, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia & Mali) a considerable proportion of the population faces problems of financial access to essential health care [...]
This article was originally drafted by Zara Rahman, with additional comments by Tanja Hichert and the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project, excerpting from from a Think Africa Press article as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s [...]
Over the course of 2012, more than 550 rhino have been brutally and unnecessarily butchered for their horns in South Africa’s national parks, comfortably eclipsing last year’s total of 448. [...]
This article was originally drafted by Stef Terblanche and the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project, excerpting from http://www.leadershiponline.co.za/articles/labour-brokers as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click [...]
This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, [...]
Roughly six weeks after 34 striking miners were gunned down by police at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa, the strikes are over and the miners have all gone [...]
African athletes won 11 GOLD medals and 34 other medals (silver and bronze) in all during the just ended London 2012 Olympics. It wasn’t only David Rudisha and Ezekiel [...]
In 2008, I left my English homeland bound for South Africa. I had no prospective job, no fixed plans or abode, no fantastic business idea that was going to land [...]
In my previous article: African Olympic Medal Winners at London 2012 I highlighted on all African sportsmen and women who won various medals at the just ended London 2012 Olympics. [...]
The International Olympic Committee is certainly not bashful about proclaiming its lofty ideals. The Olympics, it says, is about placing sport – silver platter style – at the “service of [...]
Writing a review of Africa’s participation in the Olympics has been harder than I imagined. With my country Ghana, the assessment was very simple and could be summed up [...]
Africa’s countries are long time members of the Olympic family with the continent’s nations participating in the modern Olympiad since 1908, when South Africa was the lone sub-Saharan team participating [...]
According to Microsoft’s Africa Manager – Mteto Nyati, “The opportunities for young people to come up with solutions that address our challenges, using modern tech, are huge. That’s what we [...]
In the Lead Article, entitled “Work in the Developing World,” I stressed the need for policy, partnership and cooperation across the private, non-profit, and public sectors to create jobs. [...]
Mobile development in Africa especially in Sub-Saharan Africa has boomed over the past five years with a growth rate of 550%. The African market does not merely offer hope in [...]
Sixty-five percent of Africa’s population is under the age of 24, with over 40 percent of the total population below the age of 16, and about 25 percent between the [...]
Following China’s lead, plans to increase the use of biogas, or Anaerobic Digestion, in South Africa could help improve the country’s service delivery and serve as a local solution to the worldwide energy crisis caused by the depletion of fossil fuels. [...]
A quick glance over a few recent government-issued stats, and one could perhaps be excused at this point for opining that this article is out of touch; that it isn’t [...]
Here the case of South Africa serves an example of the “race against time” represented by NCDs, either they start preventing, or the economic and social costs will become unaffordable in the next years.
From the recent riots in Angola , Uganda, and South Africa and to fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria, youth unemployment and under-employment is increasingly recognized as a potential trigger for [...]
This article was originally drafted by the Society for International Development for the newsletter “GHEA Outlook” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click [...]
This article was originally drafted by the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project for the newsletter “Southern Africa Horizon Scan” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight [...]
The commodification of Africa’s universities and the policies of mass recruitment of new students are alarming given the limited number of institutions to [...]
The migration of skilled professionals, or the brain drain as it is popularly known, is believed to impact negatively on the migrant’s home country. It usually involves the transfer of [...]
In April, the Columbia Journalism Review raised the question of whether non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa benefit from particular representations of the continent as conflict and poverty-ridden. „Yet US journalism [...]
