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A century of Kruger

Today at 00:01 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Kruger National Park’s 100-year milestone reflects both South Africa’s conservation history and SANParks’ efforts to shift from exclusionary “fortress conservation” to community partnerships and local economic development

Working on Fire sues over tender

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Working on Fire seeks to halt the award of the national wildfire management contract to Tefla, while the department and Tefla oppose the urgent relief

Use BEE to resource civil society

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The policy must be remodelled to become broad-based, helping make community organisations and social enterprises its core beneficiaries rather than political elites and their connections

Africa and our hollow unity

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Budgets are rewritten in Washington and Brussels rather than in Harare, Accra or Nairobi

Africa must rise, for good

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Our simple argument is that the Second Scramble for Africa shouldn’t happen on our watch when we have so much at our disposal to avert this age-old plunder. It is a shameful indictment on the collective leadership of the continent that Africa continues to bleed resources through such blatant thievery as illicit financial flows, which currently stands billions of US dollars

Africa–Asia development divergence

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

What has prevented most African countries from performing as well as Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam in economic modernisation is connected with the continent’s ‘soft Westernisation’, focused mainly on appearance

Paying more for less power

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Citizens are paying far more for electricity despite using less of it, as rising tariffs, fixed monthly charges and municipal costs reshape household bills and intensify affordability pressures

Engineering underdevelopment

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Nations that escaped colonial domination find themselves surrendering economic sovereignty to creditors, ratings agencies and technocrats miles away. This is remote-controlled neocolonialism without the geography

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