Our Senior Researcher Nick Branson 's Briefing Note "South Africa’s watershed elections: Awry, the Beloved Country?" was featured in the Foreign Policy's Democracy Lab Weekly Brief.
South Africa's municipal elections will be the most competitive to date. The African National Congress (ANC) faces a challenge in four of the country’s eight metropolitan municipalities.
Rising debt, the ever-growing prominence of social media and a battle for the soul of the ANC are just some of the things Jamie Hitchen and Nick Branson are expecting to see in Africa in the year ahead.
Le 10 janvier 2014, j’ai assisté à un évènement fascinant, « Africa in 2014 : Prospects and Forecasts » (Afrique en 2014: perspectives et prévisions), organisé par le Royal African Society à Londres, Royaume-Uni. Le panel d’experts était composé par Patrick Smith...
A vaccination for malaria might become a reality; and it’s not all about China. Jonathan Bhalla lists 10 things you should consider when thinking about Africa in 2014.
Piotr Cieplak asks whether a raft of new land legislation in South Africa is evidence of renewed vigour from the ANC and whether greater financial commitment will follow.
ARI’s publication “Waiting for the green revolution: Land reform in South Africa” cited by Africa in Transition’s piece “South Africa Land Reform: A Conundrum”
As South Africa marks the centenary of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act, which effectively excluded the black population from ownership of some 90% of land, Africa Research Institute (ARI) examines the record and prospects of the land reform programme. In its latest Briefing Note...
