| 20 February 2014 |
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| Feature: The post-2015 Development Agenda: new goals, no goals - or own goals? |
The Millennium Development Goal-posts are shifting; and so too is the debate about what should follow once these deadlines have expired.
The Millennium Development Goals, for all their doubtless faults, had this one great virtue: they encapsulated the whole, sprawling and often rather arcane development issue into eight universal, simple, concrete, comprehensible and measurable development targets, to be reached mainly by 2015.
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| ISS Spotlight |
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| Timely study of South Africa's future gets the country talking |
A timely and considered analysis of future scenarios for South Africa was widely profiled in the media and discussed among decision makers this week.
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| ISS Today |
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| The future of South Africa: seven things that need to happen |
In the second article on SA's future up to 2030, Jakkie Cilliers discusses how the Mandela Magic scenario can be achieved.
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| Kidnap for ransom: to pay or not to pay? |
The handing over of ransoms is becoming a moral dilemma for governments amid calls for such payments to be banned completely.
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| South Africans must decide what kind of country they want |
In the first of two articles this week on SA's future up to 2030, Jakkie Cilliers outlines several political and economic scenarios.
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| Implications of the National Development Plan 2030 for South Africa's anti-corruption agencies |
Tackling corruption should start with the independence of relevant agencies and the accountability of public service actors.
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| Events |
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| Strengthening peaceful uses of nuclear energy: a European Union regional seminar |
Attended by 72 representatives from 13 southern African countries, this seminar enabled a successful exchange on nuclear security between the EU and regional representatives.
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| Publications |
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| South African Futures 2030: How Bafana Bafana made Mandela Magic |
The Institute for Security Studies explains three long-term scenarios and the seven strategic interventions that could set SA on the prosperous 'Mandela Magic' pathway.
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| Multimedia |
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| South African futures 2030: The video |
The impact of the policy and leadership choices that South Africans will make in the years ahead is significant.
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| South Sudan crisis is about leadership in the SPLM |
This Week in Africa episode 72: South Sudan peace negotiations underway in Addis, the escalating conflict in the CAR and the march by SA opposition supporters in Johannesburg. / La semaine en Afrique episode 71: Une conversation avec Paul-Simon Handy sur les négociations de paix pour le Sud du Soudan; la spirale de violence en Centrafrique et la manifestation de l'opposition sud-africaine a Johannesburg.
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| South African futures 2030: The podcast |
Jakkie Cilliers speaks to Steven Friedman, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, about prospects for South Africa beyond this year's elections, up to 2030.
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