Role of Britain and British extractive companies in Africa

Undermining Africa's wealth

Britain's role in extracting continent's resources

Swaziland's new airport is a huge white elephant

Swaziland's white elephant

Lift off for needless new airport

Justice must be part of post-2015 development framework

Development needs justice

Justice must be part of post-2015 agenda

End of the road for South Africa's Cart People (Karretjiemense) © Conrad Bornman

South Africa's Cart People

OPENPhoto 2013 - 2nd Prize

Will mining drive the Giant Sable to extinction?

Extractives vs Environment

Angola's Giant Sable heading for extinction?

The King and the People

At the rate at which Simon Bright is churning out films about African rulers, the filmmaker might soon get the moniker of 'chronicler of power'. After his 2011 documentary, Robert Mugabe…What Happened?, Bright has moved down south to Swaziland to make The King and The People

Meet Mozambique's next President
Simon Allison | Mar 04th, 2014

Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of Filipe Nyussi. Most Mozambicans don’t know much about him either. But it’s time to start learning because unless something goes very wrong, Nyussi will be Mozambique’s next president.

GBV is not just a women's issue

It’s time to for all of us in southern Africa to make ourselves deliberately uncomfortable about the extent of gender-based violence and open ourselves up to new thinking about how we are manifestly failing in our...
Pre-trial detention in Zimbabwe

Pre-trial detention in Zimbabwe

This analysis of the criminal justice system and conditions of pre-trial detention in Zimbabwe was conducted to better understand the variance between the policy and legislative frameworks that govern pre-trial...

Looting Zimbabwe

It is hard to believe that in a poor African country where most people survive on less than one US$1 per day, the top executives of some of parastatals are grossing half a million US dollars – per month!...

Young women picking up the baton

For the past few decades, the women’s movement in southern Africa has been under scrutiny for having lost its vigor. Back in the 1990s, the movement fought gender inequality in private and public spaces, and many...
Southern Africa Resource Barometer

Southern Africa Resource Barometer

Globally, the scramble for access to, and development of, natural resources has intensified, partly due to rising demand from emerging economies. This trend has been reflected in commodity prices, which are at...

Namibia's war on women

Violence against women and children in Namibia is reaching critical proportions. Of late there have been some particularly horrific incidences of what are unfortunately termed 'passion killings'. The usual public...

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