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12 May 2006
ISS Today: Assessing the APRM - Second South African Consultative Conference
On Thursday 4 May, the recently erected Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication in dusty Kliptown, Soweto, brimmed with approximately 1400 delegates from government, business, civil society and the media who had come to drink of the fountain that inspired the birth of the Freedom Charter many decades ago. While the latter was primarily a way forward to the liberation of the oppressed South African masses, the recent assembly took place in the broader context of, and under the auspices of the New Partnership for Africa's Development's (Nepad's) African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) - the new hope for the liberation of the African continent.
Ex-South Africa official cleared of rape
... Yet activists argued such reactions to rape are common. South Africa has one of the world's highest caseloads of reported rapes per capita - 113 per 100,000 people, according to a South African research group, the Institute for Security Studies.
Security strike toll grows
... This strike has been marred by violence, but Antoinette Louw, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies said the strike does not pose a huge security threat.
MEC hopes to put an end to bungling by the police
... Cachalia's department yesterday confirmed to The Star that it had asked the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) to produce a report on the capacity of detectives in Gauteng.
11 May 2006
ISS Today: PAP and the Rationalisation of the RECs
At the second sitting of the African Union Pan African Parliament (PAP) on 3 May, 2006, the matter of the Rationalisation of the Regional Economic Communities in Africa was placed on the agenda.
10 May 2006
ISS Today: AU Interpreter Killed as UN Aid Chief Tours Darfur
Angry demonstrators killed a Sudanese interpreter working with African Union forces in Darfur on Monday in riots that broke out during a senior U.N. official's visit to a camp for displaced Sudanese.
09 May 2006
Absolute monarchy, absolute power
... Chris Maroleng of the Institute for Security Studies describes the monarchy in Swaziland as “one of the greatest marketing campaigns” explaining that the monarchy has built up a myth around this so called-traditional system of government.
ISS Today: West Africa's Horrific Wars Catch Up With Taylor
Liberia's former President Charles Taylor is finally in a detention centre in Sierra Leone, three years after a warrant for his arrest was first issued by a UN-backed war crimes court. But what about other indicted persons?
08 May 2006
ISS Today: DRC: 'No more election postponements, EU urges'
The European Union has urged the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to ensure no further delays in key July polls which its troops are due to help protect. Kinshasa last week announced the first multi-party elections for four decades would be held on 30 July rather than June 18, the latest postponement to polls originally set for 2005.
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