by Daniel Krähmer | Jul 9, 2010
By Oliver Meth and Daniel Moshenberg Ever since South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the government has been feeding us promises and creating expectations about how good this is for the country, for the economy and for the workers and poor. We...
by Daniel Krähmer | Aug 11, 2010
International Youth Day is celebrated on August,12th. Let us not forget the contribution that youth across the world have made to our development. In South Africa, the youth were instrumental in the fight against apartheid. Today, South African youth still face many...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 1, 2010
by Megan Rowling – 1 September 2010 Anxieties over the rising cost of food are bothering consumers in rich and poor countries alike, and stoking fears of social unrest in impoverished parts of the world once again. On Wednesday, at least six people –...
by Daniel Krähmer | Dec 3, 2010
The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is deeply disturbed and disappointed that Minister Patel’s New Growth Path (NGP) has not embraced new thinking on agriculture policy which requires breaking from a wholly inequitable and ecologically unsustainable...
by Daniel Krähmer | Dec 3, 2010
Glimpses of clear sunlight in a long winter only indicate that summer is possible, but are not summer itself (not even spring). The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) welcomes that the government’s New Growth Path (NGP) document recognizes the hard...