HeyJaredMichael Kahn
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MICHAEL KAHN | How SA lost vaccine sovereignty, and Botswana preserved it (opens the original)
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South Africa’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) crisis has been years in the making. The country’s internationally recognised “FMD-free zone without vaccination status” was suspended in January 2019. A further outbreak, involving the SAT-2 virus, emerged from KwaZulu-Natal in May 2021 and subsequently spread. Until earlier this year the vaccine response depended heavily on supplies from the Botswana Vaccine Institute. The historically minded reader might be perplexed at that purchase. After all, we
MICHAEL KAHN | Thought for food (opens the original)
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It is a given that industrialisation and the social good require the conduct of research and development (R&D). In some cases the R&D is conducted at home; in others the results are appropriated from elsewhere. Nobelist Paul Romer teaches that knowledge is a “non-rival” good. It moves around between two ears and through the cloud. Spending on R&D competes with other priorities whose outcomes may be rather more certain. The hope is that in the long run investment in R&D will be valuable. The Coun
MICHAEL KAHN | When defence R&D disappears, so do exports (opens the original)
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Countries rarely lose advanced manufacturing overnight. They lose it engineer by engineer, laboratory by laboratory and research programme by research programme. South Africa’s defence industry illustrates precisely that process. Addressing the recent defence industry lekgotla at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Pretoria corporate headquarters, trade, industry and competition minister Parks Tau said defence R&D expenditure had fallen from R6.1bn in 1989/90 to R500m in 20
MICHAEL KAHN | SA’s immigration crisis began long before today’s border debate (opens the original)
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“There is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi. There is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe…" So sang Hugh Masekela in his iconic song Stimela. Bra Hugh was doing more than lamenting the fate of migrant mineworkers. He was describing southern Africa’s political economy. For almost a century, the region revolved around the gold mines of the Witwatersrand that sucked in migrant miners from across southern Africa. Railways carried them south. Wages, however meagre, sustained families
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