Word: governmentally
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Zuma's most public test will come next June, when South Africa stages the football World Cup - whose expected 500,000 fans will deliver an unprecedented challenge to his government's ability to deliver on security, transport and infrastructure upgrades. Zuma has also set himself other ambitious targets against which...
And even if Zuma were to keep surprising, circumstances are against him. He came to power just as South Africa entered its first recession since the end of apartheid in 1994, cutting tax revenues and spending plans. But his supporters in the labor unions are in no mood to cut...
Zuma describes the demonstrations as recurring annual phenomenon. But he is not complacent. "[The protests] say to the government that we had better move," he says. "It's a wake-up call. 'Deal with this! Pay serious attention!' If we do not deal with these things now, people will lose...
At the most basic level, the decision to pursue a troop surge is wise and well thought out. In his speech, Obama emphasized that Afghanistan is not a new Vietnam. Unlike that war, the Afghan one is being fought by a 43-nation collation against not a popular insurgency, but...
In the field, many of the fresh troops will fight embedded within Afghan units, providing the Afghans with valuable on-the-job training. The military and Afghan government will concurrently incentivize less zealous Taliban fighters to lay down their arms or switch sides during a phase of �...