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Sep 6, 2012 South Africa: The Price of Platinum
"The recent study of the Bench Marks Foundation has
predicted the problems now seen at Marikana. If all the
mining houses had addressed the underlying causes of unrest
and provided both workers and local communities with the
opportunity to live a decent life, the killings could have
been avoided." - Reverend Jo Seoka
Sep 6, 2012 South Africa: The Marikana Era?
Will Marikana become an emblematic symbol for an era of
post-apartheid plutocracy, as did Sharpeville for the
apartheid era in the decades following 1960? Or will it, as
many hope, serve as a wakeup call for South Africa to
deliver on the promise of the end of political apartheid in
1994?
Apr 4, 2012 Africa: BRICS Stepping Up on Global Health
When the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
countries met for their fourth summit in New Delhi last
month, the event attracted little attention from the Western
press. The New York Times headlined its report "BRICS
Leaders Fail to Create Rival to World Bank," noting that the
summit only created a working group to consider such a new
development bank next year. But the common tendency to
dismiss the group because of its internal diversity risks
ignoring the steady emergence of greater influence for its
members beyond their obvious growing economic weight.
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