Beyond the border — why the immigration debate really mirrors SA’s soul
24 June 2026
Johannesburg has taken a big new loan to help fix its electricity problems
23 June 2026
Stuck at the start, 50 years on: Youth unemployment and exclusion in a low-growth, unequal, changing
20 June 2026
Myth-busting: why foreigners aren’t taking local jobs
19 June 2026
EPE NETWORK MEETING: POLICY DIALOGUE | Addressing the Imperatives of Economic Development and Climate Change: Managing Global and Local Tensions
The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) is hosting a Policy Dialogue that will reflect on pathways for economic development in the context of the climate crisis. The dialogue will convene leading think tanks, academics, and policymakers from the networks of the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the Presidential Climate Commission to discuss the challenges and opportunities of pursuing inclusive and sustainable development.
EPE NETWORK MEETING: Public lecture | A New Global Order? War and the Middle East in an Age of Climate Breakdown
Taking the US-Israeli war against Iran as its starting point, this talk situates the ongoing crises in the Middle East within the longer history of the region’s role in the making of the global economy and the rise of American power from the mid-twentieth century onward. It focuses in particular on the significance of the Gulf states, the growing place of China in the region’s political economy, and the Middle East’s centrality to global energy, finance, logistics, and food systems. Against this backdrop, the talk examines the sharpening geopolitical rivalries associated with the relative decline of US hegemony, asking what this moment reveals about the deepening interconnections between a changing global order and climate breakdown.
AGREE CONFERENCE: Green Minerals, Shared Futures: Africa’s Path to Equitable Industrialisation
The African Green Resources, Energy and Economy (AGREE) is multi-country research project which provides a policy-relevant analysis of Africa’s role in the global green transition, centred on its vast reserves of critical minerals essential to low-carbon technologies. It draws on original research conducted in five countries – South Africa, DRC, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia. The key aspects of the research included taking stock of green mineral endowments in these countries and evaluating pathways for mineral-based industrialisation that prioritise equity, value addition, ecological sustainability, and regional economic cooperation.
