It looks like the major public sector strike in South Africa might be coming to an end. The government has upped its offer and the unions seem set to accept. There is a prisoner’s dilemma element of every labor action, of course, but at the end of nearly every one across the globe not ended […]
Last week the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights long-awaited mapping report on the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo leaked. In it Rwanda is implicated in a range of horrible crimes, the most grimly ironic being genocide. Texas in Africa (welcome back!) has a fantastic response.
If you are a company from the overlooked continent, how do you penetrate the international market? For 40 emerging African Challengers, a new breed of ambitious African companies, the answer is to imitate a model based on multinationals from China, India, Brazil, and Russia, referred as “New Global Challengers”, who have recently taken advantage of […]
With the spectacular branding of French first lady, Carla Bruni, by the Iranian state media as ‘prostitute’, the world once again becomes witness to the cultural mindset of Iran’s political elite running the country. This is only one aspect into the narrow circle in charge of decision making in Iran. The insistence of this group […]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s exhortation that the journalists work with her to consolidate democracy sounds more like a threat than a claim that the government and journalists should work together. The Daily Star reports that she rang out: “Don’t do anything that might jeopardise democracy in the future.” Claiming that journalists help pass propaganda in […]
While overseeing the departure of American forces in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, warned Sunday that a new Iraqi government may still be months away from formation and said that an extended impasse could create demands for a new election to break the deadlock, which has existed since March 7th. The New York Times published an excellent piece regarding statements made by Odierno yesterday, at headquarters. […]
Oh c’mon now. Seriously: Pakistan? Pakistan’s already lost face to the world on politics, economics, development, education, human rights, and now…cricket? Pakistanis seem to have been taken down on the grounds of one of their most important cultural exports. Four players of the Pakistan team have been alleged to have accepted bribes to fix matches. […]
In the United States Ronald Reagan used to be referred to as “The Teflon President” because no matter what befell his administration or what mistakes he made or what failures he had, nothing seemed to stick. It appears that South African President Jacob Zuma has his own non-stick sheen. Despite myriad personal controversies and political […]
The closer cooperation between Bangladesh and India, signaled as a rush of agreements between public agencies in the two countries, seems to be taking a turn toward more solid ground. Bureaucrats within the two main public utilities have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a new coal fired power plant in Khulna. Designed […]
Stories that have accumulated on my desk over the last few days with commentary as apt: Increasingly ANC Youth League (ANC-YL) president Julius Malema finds himself in President Jacob Zuma’s bad graces. And this, of course, is shorthand for the increasingly tendentious relationship between the ANC and the Youth League. This is yet another of […]
“The mother came back, got her daughter and checked her daughter and she said, ‘her inside was so’ –she emphasized– ‘opened.’ Then she asked the daughter, ‘what happened to you?’ And the daughter said, ‘while I went to the bathroom there was this man Who held me and had sex with me’.” To say “Beginning […]
The Israeli government is set to revise text books used in the bulk of state-run schools for being overly critical, sparking questions as to the freedom and broader role of public educational institutions. Governments have notoriously — whether in Israel, the Arab world, or the United States — shaped the historical narrative to their advantage. […]
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