 | | | | Road infrastructure's role in growing the South African economy Productive expenditure on road infrastructure contributes to economic growth as a factor of production, complement to other factors of production, stimulus to factor accumulation, stimulus to aggregate demand, and industrial policy tool. On the other hand, unproductive or insufficient investment in road infrastructure may crowd out private sector investment, increase operational costs, reduce the lifespan of private sector capital, necessitate private capital adjustment costs, decrease labour productivity, and impinge on human development. This paper uses economic growth theory to explain... |
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| An Appeal to Humanity Statement of President and Chair Board of Directors Lem Ethiopia, the Environment & Development Society Since the world community met on June 5, 1972 under the watchful banner-Only One Earth, the environmental agenda has undergone remarkable progress. Once a peripheral issue, today, it has moved to the forefront of political , economic, national security and foreign policy concerns. Over the past two decades, there have been sufficient grounds for public alarm about the state and fate of our only planet-the Earth. Given the severity of problems before us-ozone layer depletion, climate change and global warming, the proliferation of hazardous wastes and toxic chemicals, the mass extinction of... |
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| Zimbabwe and Zanu PFS continuing hegemony meet the new boss same as the old boss The refrain " Meet the new boss, same as the old boss " , was popularised in African Politics by Nicolas Van de Walle in 2003 to describe the pervasive nature of clientelist politics in Africa despite transitions from authoritarianism to electoral democracy. As Zimbabwean politics enters a new post-Mugabe epoch, whether the new boss is the same as the old boss is the fundamental operational question, on whose answer millions of hopes lie. It is this question that this article mainly grapples with, as Zimbabwe closes the curtain on Robert Mugabe, and begins a new political era with Emmerson... |
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| Modal media: connecting media ecology and mobilities research Following Emily Keightley and Anna Reading in their conceptualization of 'mediated mobilities', I illuminate useful connections between media ecology and mobilities research and make the case for a combined modal medium theory. Both fields align clearly in their interest in technology and technique, media and modes, and messages and moods. A fruitful starting point in the suggested transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework is the exploration of the specific medium along with its materialities. In the second step, different kinds of environments and possible choreographies... |
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