Editor's note

The debate about South Africa’s economic future is being muddied by the use of rhetorical phrases like “white monopoly capital” and “radical economic transformation”. Sean Gossel and Misheck Mutize argue that this is part of a well calculated strategy by a governing party that’s under pressure and wants to deflect attention from its failures. The outcome could be disastrous for the country, as it’s been for Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

Comprehensive sex education is an important way to help students make good, healthy choices. Unfortunately Kenyan schools’ efforts in this critical area are falling short, write Melissa Stillman and Estelle Monique Sidze. The country has a chance to turn this around as it starts piloting a new national curriculum.

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Sibonelo Radebe

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Business + Economy

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Zuma's attack on capital is digging South Africa into a deeper hole

Sean Gossel, University of Cape Town; Misheck Mutize, University of Cape Town

The populism politics adopted by South Africa's ruling party, African National Congress, mask a strategy to deflect attention from the party's policy failures and to hide its many scandals.

Education

Politics + Society

Health + Medicine

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