Khadija Sharife

Q&A with the IFP* on a few front-line issues regarding their environmental resources policies (political ecology). The questionnaire - sent to major political parties - interrogated a number of issues ranging from agriculture and the extractive industries to carbon trading, energy and sustainable economics. Due to limited space, only a handful of responses have been pasted below.

IFP's Environmental Priorities:

Climate chaos must be averted. Ecology is the key to understanding the role of humans on earth. WE must carefully balance human development with respect for all other living entities… ( Read on! )

Q&A with the ID* on a few front-line issues regarding their environmental resources policies (political ecology). The questionnaire -- sent to major political parties -- interrogated a number of issues ranging from agriculture and the extractive industries to carbon trading, energy and sustainable economics. Due to limited space, only a handful of responses have been pasted below.

ID's environmental priorities:

The ID firstly believes that the economy is a subset of the environment and not the other way round. It is this perspective that informs our approach to environmental issues, where we… ( Read on! )

Q&A with the DA* on a few front-line issues regarding their environmental resources policies (political ecology). The questionnaire -- sent to major political parties -- interrogated a number of issues ranging from agriculture and the extractive industries to carbon trading, energy and sustainable economics. Due to limited space, only a handful of responses have been pasted below.

DA's environmental priorities:
The DA's primary focus is on the maintenance and improvement of environmental quality as it relates strongly to human and eco-system health. This resonates in our responses to water… ( Read on! )

It could be said that the Brothers Grimm wrote both fairy tales and nightmares at one and the same time. In such tales, Hansel and Gretel — innocent children abandoned in the woods at the behest of their stepmother — stumble on a delicious, edible cottage inhabited by a cannibalistic witch. Though they eventually outwit the witch, finding their way home, the moral of the story, as it relates to “toddler” or developing economies is clear: gingerbread cottages and idyllic countries-cum-tax havens such as Switzerland, serve as bases where the young are cannibalized, deposited by… ( Read on! )

There is a reason Cope’s president will not reveal the details of the arms deal, a deal that will lock South Africa into servicing billions in debt over the next 20 years — the same deal that Lekota was in all probability privy to as former minister of defence and chief of intelligence of the ANC. It’s no secret that the arms deal lies at the root of the ANC’s crisis of integrity, a stain that should by all rights be transferred to Cope as an entity composed of people who were until recently, members of the ANC.*

Does Cope’s split symbolise a significant shift from the political… ( Read on! )