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Africa's future will hinge on closing skills gap

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AFRICA

Skills development in Africa.

Skills gap will hinder South African growth plans

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SOUTH AFRICA

Last month, the budget increased education spending from 296 billion rand (22.8 billion dollars) to 321 billion rand (24.7 billion dollars), remaining constant at 6.8% of GDP and…

Water security crisis in South Africa will escalate

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SOUTH AFRICA

Outlook for water security in South Africa.

South Africa's universities face major funding crisis

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SOUTH AFRICA

Outlook for higher education in South Africa.

South Africa's ANC may tighten black empowerment rules

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SOUTH AFRICA

AA forms a core part of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) -- a policy designed to address the racial inequalities inherited from the apartheid era. It is politically popular, but…

African migration will exacerbate skill shortages

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AFRICA

The deaths of around 900 migrants attempting to cross to Europe from Libya on April 19 has heightened perceptions of a refugee surge. Although asylum applications in Europe have…

Technology delivers mixed development gains in Africa

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AFRICA

However, early hopes that digital technology would rapidly overcome the continent’s infrastructural weaknesses and enable governments to achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development…

South African monopoly plan faces competing interests

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SOUTH AFRICA

The proposed overhaul, prompted in part by populist sentiment against so-called ‘white monopoly capital’, aims to facilitate competition and open the economy to smaller…

African impact investment will need more local content

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AFRICA

Impact investment in Africa.

New optimism will buoy Uganda-Tanzania energy sectors

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UGANDA/TANZANIA

With a budget of USD3.5bn, the 1,400-kilometre pipeline project linking the western city of Hoima in Uganda to Tanzania’s Tanga port should bring significant economic benefits to…