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False information about scholarships of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Dear applicants for scholarships of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Currently there are circulating on the internet various offers of services for obtaining scholarships from the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, often at considerable costs. Some websites are using the logo of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation without authorization.

Human Rights Report Card 2018

The Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) has for the past nine years annually presented a Human Rights Report Card. The Report Card measures the realisation of human rights in South Africa.

Managing Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Developmental Approach

The event held at the Mountain Club of South Africa in Cape Town on the 22nd of March 2018, jointly hosted by the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) Western Cape Branch and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), provided a platform for a lively debate on the question of how to manage migration from Sub-Saharan Africa in a developmental approach.

Water Crisis in Cape Town: Lessons to be Learnt (PART 2)

The Responsibilities of the Three Spheres of Government

In the South African Constitution, Bill of Rights, Chapter 2,Paragraph 27 on Health Care, Food, Water and Social Security, it states that "everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water". Due to the current water crisis in the Western Cape, this right is threatened. This article seeks to explain the various responsibilities of national, provincial and local government in terms of water supply and water management. It further elaborates on the lessons that the three spheres of government can learn from the crisis. A report by Dorothea Gibson, KAS-Research Assistant

Water Crisis in Cape Town: Lessons to be Learnt (PART 1)

HOW THE CITY’S WATER SUPPLY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM NEEDS TO CHANGE

After the Western Cape had already declared the drought a provincial disaster, the interministerial task team on drought and water scarcity declared the South African drought a national disaster on the 9th of February 2018 (Business Day, 2018). Is this declaration not long overdue? How does the Water system work in the Western Cape and how can ‘Day Zero’ be avoided in future? This article series aims at giving answers to these questions. Part 1 will deal with the Western Cape Water Supply System and possible alternatives of water supply to prevent ‘Day Zero’ in future.

Anti-Xenophobia Dialogue

The Anti-Xenophobia Dialogue is done in cooperation with the South African Council of Churches in Gauteng. It forms part of a series of events which aims at the eradication of xenophobia and promotion of social cohesion by strengthening conflict resolution skills of community leaders, improving liaison with Government and other agencies on the provision of relief during attacks.The first Dialogue took place on the 14th of February 2018 at Khotso House in Johannesburg.

ANC spielt heile Welt

Ramaphosa ersetzt Zuma als Staatspräsidenten

In einem Aufsehen erregenden Machtkampf unterliegt Staatspräsident Zuma und hat dem im Dezember neu gewählten ANC-Vorsitzenden und Vizepräsidenten Cyril Ramaphosa auf Druck des Parteivorstandes vorzeitig sein Amt überlassen müssen. Das Land und die Dauerregierungspartei African National Congress (ANC) reagierten überwiegend erleichtert, da viele Jacob Zuma aufgrund seiner zahlreichen Korruptionsvorwürfe, die bis hin zum Ausverkauf des Landes reichten, für untragbar hielten.

Stabwechsel beim ANC

Ramaphosa übernimmt Parteivorsitz

Auf dem 54. Parteitag des seit 1994 regierenden Afrikanischen Nationalkongresses (ANC) musste der amtierende Staatspräsident und bisherige Parteivorsitzende Jacob Zuma eine heftige Niederlage einstecken. Mit knapper Mehrheit wählten die 4.776 stimmberechtigten Delegierten den Vizepräsidenten des Landes, Cyril Ramaphosa, an die Spitze der Partei. Zuma, der nach zwei Amtszeiten als Parteipräsident nicht wiedergewählt werden durfte, favorisierte für seine Nachfolge seine Ex-Frau, die ehemalige Ministerin und AU-Vorsitzende Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

The Vth AU-EU summit: a turning point for relations between Africa and Europe?

On 29th and 30th of November 2017 the 5th AU-EU Summit took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. 16 of the 28 EU Member States attended the summit, amongst them the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. For both countries Africa stands high on the political agenda, and the ad hoc initiative undertaken at the summit to address the modern slave trade in Libya highlights the joint concern but also the renewed Franco-German partner- and leadership.

The UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees: A New Solution to Migration Management, or more of the same?

SAIIA Occasional Paper No 273, November 2017

This paper by Asmita Parshotam examines the Migration Compact in light of existing tensions among UN member states, what it hopes to achieve, and how it differs from the Global Compact on Refugees.