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Failure of water privatisation in Tanzania
Mussa Billegeya

After the failure of water privatisation in Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam water services have been reclaimed back in to public hands.

The WTO Doha round and EPAs in an era of crisis
Dot Keet

The major causes of the economic and social crises are now being even more blatantly promoted by the EU - both within the multilateral WTO negotiations and bilateral and bi-regional FTA/EPA negotiations - as the fundamental solutions.

Repairing the weakest links: a new agenda for fragile states
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David Sogge

In order for fragile states and the concept of state weakness to be properly understood, they need to be considered in the contexts of political economy and world history. Four apparently disparate cases – Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo and Angola – show surprising similarities, and highlight common...

The implications of ‘the global crisis’ for the Southern African Development Community
Dot Keet

What is fundamental for Southern African to overcome the underlying structural crisis are democratic, inclusive and accountable participatory developmental states firmly orientated to serve the needs of their counties and peoples, their environments …. and the planetary eco-system.

He was given the same brutal treatment as his victims
William Gumede

In the end President Thabo Mbeki's demise was as cold, calculated and brutal as his own reputation was for dispensing of his political enemies.

Although Mr Mbeki performed woefully on a range of policies, from failing to deal effectively with crime, HIV/Aids, poverty and unemployment, to...

South Africa government has to make a clean break with past
TNI
 Trusha Reddy
If South Africa is to seek a major transition from an energy-intensive to a low-carbon economy, it needs to completely replace fossil fuels by 2050 - so why does its government remain committed to new coal and nuclear power plants?

The South African Environmental Affairs and Tourism...

Darkness and light – the electricity crisis in South Africa
David Fig
At a time of serious energy mismanagement, and with the Cabinet approving a nuclear policy without any independent evaluation of the state company Eskom’s proposals, South Africans need to question the orthodoxy that only coal and uranium can deliver the requisite power needs of the country....
Water privatisation in Morocco
TNI
 Mehdi Lahlou

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Private interests and Morocco's economy

Since the mid-1990s (1) , Morocco's economic and political decision-makers have pushed for the liberalisation,...

Destroying African agriculture
Walden Bello
Biofuel production did not create, but only exacerbated the global food crisis that had been building up for years, as policies promoted by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO encouraged the conversion of economies that are largely food-self-sufficient into chronic food importers.

Biofuel...

Southern Africa: whither regional integration?
Dot Keet
 Interviewed by Aileen Kwa
As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based development?
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