Archive for March, 2008
South Africa beyond 2010
I recently had the opportunity to attend a breakfast seminar hosted by the Ubuntu Foundation. The Guest Speaker was Guy Lundy, a futurist, strategic thinker and economic analyst. You may have read Mr. Lundy’s book South Africa: Reasons to Believe. Or you may be familiar with an email that spread like wildfire all over the [...]
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The Africa Centre for Cities (UCT) in partnership with the African Centre recently hosted a debate series, the Cape Futures Public Debate Series at the Spier Estate in Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
The first debate addressed a common challenge in developing countries, namely slum eradication. The aptly titled first debate, ‘Is Slum Eradication the Right Policy Objective’ [...]
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HIV/ AIDS continues to ravage African countries despite concerted efforts by all stakeholders to try and manage and limit its spread. It was approximated in 2007 that Sub Saharan Africa had 22.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS.
While the community at large still continues to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, some members of the community have [...]
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