Tackle Food Insecurity Through the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Johan Potgieter, Senior Researcher, Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Division, ISS Pretoria Office

The growing African population is placing a tremendous strain on food production and poverty eradication. The creation of fisheries and aquaculture opportunities in rural areas could address these challenges.

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Another Battle Looms Over Zimbabwe Constitution

Gwinyayi Dzinesa, Senior Researcher, Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, ISS Pretoria Office

The latest disagreements between the two formations of the MDC and ZANU-PF over the draft constitution.

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ACPST Course: Managing Diversity - Addis Ababa

This course seeks to positively influence policy making and implementation by giving participants a better understanding of diversity in Africa, its potential effects and how people have tried to harness and exploit it to various ends. It will provide participants with cutting-edge practical skills for managing diversity in realms that run from electoral politics and natural resource management to migration and post-conflict reconstruction. It will also help participants create networks for knowledge and information exchange as well as concerted action for managing diversity to enhance human security in Africa..

Situation Report: Swaziland`s Non-Party Political System and the 2013 Tinkhundla Elections, Dimpho Motsamai

The Kingdom of Swaziland is widely recognised as an absolute monarchy and a non-party state where executive authority lies in the king as the head of state, governing with his Advisory Council and traditional advisers.1 The monarchical political system is a stark departure from the policy framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which considers democracy and popular participation to be part of the imperatives of economic development and human security.2 The Swaziland 2005 constitution, whose democratic legitimacy is contested because the constitution-making process was highly defective, effectively vests legislative power in the king, Mswati III, who can veto all legislation approved by parliament. This is a major weakness of the tinkhundla constituency model, since even an elected legislature cannot override the veto.

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South Africa Insight Episode 23

Gareth Newham discusses the current developments in the struggle for power within the trade unions, in light of the ANC national conference in Maguaung and the trends in violent protests across South Africa looking at the causes of this type of violence

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