Op-ed
Corruption is For Our Own Account
Op-ed, South Africa | 12.16.09 By Lionel Isaacs
I recently happened to overhear a conversation between two finance industry professionals. The older middle-aged man was insisting to the younger woman that the client secrecy practices of her Swiss employer are immoral, as they enable and perpetuate African corruption by taking the ill-gotten deposits of African politicians.
Gay Lifestyle May Soon Equal Prison Sentence in Uganda
East Africa, Op-ed | 12.08.09 By Randy Odaga
Over the course of human life several groups of people have been hopelessly victimized and marginalized for being nothing but their true selves. It was the African Americans before the civil rights era, the Aborigines before the era of human decency, and during my generation’s era the victims have been openly gay people of developing [...]
In Search of an Ideology
Op-ed, West Africa | 12.03.09 By Kingsley Ewetuya
Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian philosopher and politician once said, “A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.” A country is the [...]
After The Downturn, What Next For South Africa?
Op-ed, South Africa | 12.03.09 By Lionel Isaacs
South Africa went into the global economic downturn with unemployment estimated to be between 25 and 40 percent higher. The economy has lost almost 500,000 jobs in 2009 alone, as the country felt the effects of the global downturn after a fortunate, but brief delay. In the third quarter of 2009, the economy registered 0.9 [...]
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