Posted on October 28, 2009 by idasa
By HOPEWELL RADEBE – Business Day
President Jacob Zuma ’s administration could significantly increase economic growth if it carefully spelt out the objectives of its economic relations with the US, says Witney Schneidman*, who advised Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on African affairs.
He was at the University of Pretoria yesterday, where he delivered a lecture in memory [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2009 by idasa
As Zimbabwe extracts itself from years of turbulence, the Global Political Agreement (GPA) provides the map for the way forward. Thus, monitoring the implementation of the GPA provides some measure of understanding of progress in Zimbabwe. This document gives a monthly overview of political developments in Zimbabwe, under the terms set [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by idasa
Shouldn’t human rights apply to all humans, even prisoners?
Should the crime of stealing a piece of meat be punishable by death? In Zimbabwe’s prisons even a short incarceration period has a high probability of ending an inmate’s life, a fate that torments prisoners when they are imprisoned.
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by idasa
To know your ministers, is to know your powerful decision makers. Understand more about the dynamics in the Zimbabwean government in the profiles of Ministers. See these on the Idasa website here; and the Zimbabwean Times site here.
Source – Zimbabwe Times
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