2023 Briefing Papers

Every year 20th June is observed internationally as World Refugee Day. Two points need to be made immediately….

The National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) provides a strategic roadmap that sets…

Analysts predict that in a mere thirty years, the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) could rise to…

0n 28th June this year, a full bench of the Gauteng High Court handed down a much…

Simply put, a trade agreement between two or more nations defines how they co-operate in conducting trade. The…

Giving birth is participating in the miracle of creation. The wonder of the birthing of a new…

A deeply disturbing trend has developed over the past few years with regard to mobile communities in South…

Recent experience with coalition governance in some of South Africa’s largest cities has been anything but encouraging. Johannesburg,…

The title of this Briefing Paper comes from a brochure issued by the International Catholic Migration Commission, in…

The year began, rather sadly, with the old spectres of hardness of heart towards displaced persons and outright…

While South Africa has previously been perceived to have highest food security in Africa, the United Nations (UN)…

All over the world today extractable resources exist in large reserves that can be used as raw materials…