Dialogue Online No. 7/2015: “Zimbabwe’s Politics of Despair” By Professor Brian Raftopoulos
In an insightful commentary on the current state of Zimbabwe politics, Joost Fontein writes about the prevalence of despondency in
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Dialogue Online: No. 6/2015: “Zimbabwe’s Re-Engagement by the Western Community: A Call for a Calibrated Approach.” By Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa
Post 31st of July 2013; the Western Community has signalled or started engaging and normalising relations with Zimbabwe after close
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Building International, Regional and National Consensus on Swaziland: Suppression of Terrorism Act, Labor Unions, and Political Prisoners
Tuesday 31 March 2015, Pretoria The political situation in Swaziland is continuing to deteriorate with increased suppression of pro-democracy activity.
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Dialogue Online – No. 5/2015: “A Critique of the Current Regional Approach to Human Security within the Context of Informality and a Pervasive Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) Sector” By Tamara Naidoo and Showers Mawowa
The Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s human security infrastructure embraces the notions of freedom from want and fear as represented
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Dialogue Online – No. 4/2015: “Peace and Security in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Progress and Prospects?” By Showers Mawowa
Though the connection between peace and development is commonly acknowledged, the inclusion of peace and security in the emerging post-2015
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Address by the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Mr Godfrey Oliphant, at a SALO workshop
16 March 2016, Pretoria Read PDF here: Address by the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources SALO
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Letter to Swazi Prime Minister from Kommunal – Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union
Sibusiso Dlamini Office of the Prime Minister Hospital Hill Mbabane Swaziland Prime Minister, On behalf of 515 000 members of
Read moreDialogue Online – No. 2/2015: “Western Sahara: Africa’s Unfinished Business” By Howard Smith
One of the anomalies of Twenty-first Century Africa is the existence of a single remaining colony on the continent, Western
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Dialogue Online – No. 1/2015: “Climate Change Exposes the Limitations of the State-Centred Approach to Peace Building in Somalia” By Tamara Naidoo
Somalia, due to perennial instability, has had a long history of international peacebuilding experiments that in turn, almost set the
Read moreA failure of governance: Understanding South Sudan’s conflict dynamics beyond the political and humanitarian crisis: Lotje de Vries and Peter Hakim Justin
Read paper below: De Vries & Jusitn 2014 Failure of Governance in South Sudan
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