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28 October 2016

Finance Minister juggles both the books and the politics

South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivered his medium-term budget with a lot more than balancing the books...
20 October 2016

What must fall: fees or the South African state?

The polarising effects of #FeesMustFall are now pervasive in the academy, and probably beyond.
17 October 2016

WSG to train Commonwealth parliamentarians

WSG is proud to announce that it has won the tender to provide certificate programmes to members of the Commonwealth...
29 September 2016

The Mandela Foundation’s verdict on the Mandela era: it failed …

In a little-heralded move in 2015, the Nelson Mandela Foundation released a "position paper" on race and identity.
30 August 2016

South Africa’s ruling ANC is facing its sternest test. From the inside

The old world as South Africa knew it, of ANC majorities and policy certainty, seems to be at an end – and all does not...
15 August 2016

Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Center to join WSG

Dr Liv Torres, Executive Director of Nobel Peace Center, has been appointed as a Visiting Adjunct Professor at WSG
12 August 2016

Message to white South African voters: Keep calm … and shut up!

We the South African voters have spoken in the local government election, and we said many different things.
02 August 2016

Electoral tremors are shaking South Africa’s ANC. How will it respond?

For the first time in the country's democratic era since 1994, the governing ANC has ceased being an untouchable...
23 June 2016

Flight of corporate profits poses biggest threat to South Africa’s economy

Foreign corporations are drawing away profits far faster than they are reinvesting or than local firms bring home...

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