The Democratic Alliance and South Africa’s Local Elections
Since 1948 when the National Party came to power and imposed apartheid, the South African opposition parties have rarely been genuine alternatives to the party of government.
Archive for May, 2011
Politics and Government
Food and Wine
Bobotie and Malva Pudding: South African Cuisine
Bobotie is associated with South Africa generally, but it was originally a Cape Malay dish. When I was in South Africa this summer, we went for a family lunch at a restaurant in the Bo Kaap, the Malay section of Cape Town.
Business & Finance
Private Equity Investing In Africa: Six Questions With Hurley Doddy Of Emerging Capital Partners—Part II
In this second of a two-part series, Hurley Doddy of Emerging Capital Partners discusses why certain investors argue over a possible lack of capital in sub-Saharan Africa, and more.
Business & Finance
Private Equity Investing In Africa: Six Questions With Hurley Doddy Of Emerging Capital Partners—Part I
For a growing number of private equity investors and asset managers, Africa is no longer a secret. Recent events highlight the view that Africa will play an important role in the global economy.
Social Enterprise & Philanthropy
Ashoka Changemakers: Third World Planet—No Place to Call Home
The world’s population today is evenly split between cities and rural areas. Developed nations – boasting all the luxuries of modern life—are about three-quarters urban, while nearly half of the population in developing countries lives in densely packed, suffocating city settings.
Business & Finance
The Africonomist: A Talk with Pat Devenish
Agro-industrial businesses in Africa are playing an increasingly important role in the global food supply chain as the cost and demand for commodities rise and as the world’s population expands.
Travel
Groot Constantia in South Africa
As a South African, I am blessed to represent the following statistic to you: “South Africa has the longest wine route in the world.” Well if that didn’t put the seal on your South African trip
Books
African Naturalist: The Life and Times of Rodney Carrington Wood
Rodney Wood was a remarkable man, a great naturalist who spent 50 years mainly in Nyasaland (now Malawi) studying and collecting mammals, birds, fish, insects, shells, and plants. After a good education, he turned his back on the formalities of life in England and became a cotton farmer in Africa.
Current Events
South Africa’s Municipal Elections
Originally posted on the Africa in Transition blog, former ambassador John Campbell of the Council on Foreign Relations writes about today’s municipal elections in South Africa.
Politics and Government
A Man to Watch: Babatunde Fashola, Executive Governor of Lagos State
This May has been a pretty good month for Babatunde Fashola. Fresh from his re-election as executive governor of Lagos State, Nigeria’s business capital, Fashola won high praise in a profile in The Economist.
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