Bharti Mittal, in his recent interview said that “Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent”. Recently, newspapers such as The Economist or the BBC have flooded their magazine with titles on Africa everywhere, calling it “the hopeful continent” or the “future breadbasket of the world”. But is Africa really rising, or are we being too optimistic? Economically, demographically, geographically, technologically, and socially, Africa has truly been growing, but maybe yet not enough to
South Africa is a relatively new democracy that emerged in 1994 after decades of struggle. During the years of struggle, South Africa was a fragmented country and the majority of its people were subjected to a corrupt political, social, economic and moral regime. After the government was elected democratically by the majority of its people, it embarked upon a programme to reconstruct and develop South Africa to the benefits of all its people. The programme of growth, reconstruction and development
and fiscal costs of corruption in a country, if any? As hard as this question maybe, in order to completely understand it we first have to break it down. To understand this question, one first needs a thorough and deep understanding of what corruption is and its origins. One also has to understand what is meant by the terms economic and fiscal costs. Only after this, can one start to get a better understanding of the question. Therefore through the analysis of how corruption ties into economic and
starvation such as Niger, South Africa, Malawi and Central African Republic. Moreover, Africa is considered the highest continent with a poverty percentage, and most of the poor countries in the world are located in Africa. Although
Nigeria, also called the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West-Africa consisting of 36 states, including the capital Abuja. The country is bordering Niger in the north, Benin in the west and Cameroon and Chad in the east. Nigeria has an estimated population of 180 million inhabitants, making it the most populous country in Africa. The West-African country is also the wealthiest country in Africa, due to large revenues from the oil industry. Unfortunately, the industry does not only have
Africa is a considered as being the most struggling continent of earth. It is a continent counting today 1.8 billion inhabitants. Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the Southern Atlantic Ocean, the Northern Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea. It is full of natural resources. Africa is not developing as fast as it should. Why is that? Why is this big continent left behind with all potentials? What are its nations not doing right? Answering these question may require to look
In South Africa, 17,068 people were murdered in the 2013/14 year, an increase from 16,259 murders committed in the 2012/13 year. The average number of daily murders in the country stands at 47. The country’s murder rate is more than five times higher than the global average in 2013 which was 6 murdersfor every 100,000 people (Africa Check 2014). Like murder, the rates of violent crime, assault and economic crime in South Africa are very high. These statitics hint that South Africa is a nation blighted
Africa is a continent with a vast amount of natural resources, including oil, gold, and diamond. It is also a continent filled with intelligent people, but a problem has risen in Africa that could eventually drain Africa of its intellectual population. This is the problem of the African Brain drain. Africa’s fully educated populations are leaving to find better jobs overseas, and the young brains are leaving to get education abroad. This phenomenon could lead to the downfall of several African countries
that took in the era of apartheid. So now the procurement it is the centre stage of the delivery system in the government and procurement it must be used to help the social, industrial or environmental policies so they can be adhered to. I in South Africa during the apartheid era public procurement it was focusing on large and already recognised contractors, so it was hard for new contractors to take part in the government procurement procedures, so now the public procurement in our country it has
nature of political parties as well as the ideological driven nature of social movements which make social movements more adequately placed than political parties to reflect the views of citizens. This is evident in past social movements within South Africa. Social movements are often informal, or loosely organisational groups of individuals and draw upon the passion of it’s members towards reaching a recognized social goal. This goal usually being one of resisting or attaining a social change. Political