The article argues for the importance of an international comparative perspective in terms of our analysis and response to violent crime. This is particularly important in the light of the fact that while an increasing ...

Control of the waters of the Nile Basin has been long contested among the ten African riparian states that sit within the wider catchment area. In colonial times, use of the Nile was regulated by treaties promulgated and ...

There are proposals that social welfare services be developed in concert with expanding cash transfers to mitigate the impact of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome and poverty on children and ...

The scenarios are updated in this paper to take into account the potentially dramatic impact of the global economic crisis (GEC). A straight path from historical to future employment figures will no longer be relevant, and ...

The prospects for positioning 2010 as a continent-wide event look promising provided South Africa begins a dialogue with African heads of State without delay. The dialogue should be initiated by the South African government ...

This paper is intended for the purposes of discussion to raise questions, rather than present answers to the problem of the universality of children's rights. The paper considers the ideal definition of childhood implicit ...

South Africa is trapped in a cycle of modest growth, unacceptable poverty levels and record unemployment. This has led to renewed interest on the relationship between macro (growth) and micro (poverty and distribution) ...