HSF Briefs

SELLING YOUR GAMETES – THE NEW BLACK MARKET?
Author: Arvitha Doodnath
Published: 04 Mar 2015
A discussion of the international egg donation programmes which are exploiting South African women amongst other women for the selling of their eggs. The procedures of the egg extractions are also discussed.
Briefs Health
XENOPHOBIA AND INTEGRATION: FEAR, NEAR AND FAR - PART I: LESSONS FROM ISLAM IN EUROPE
Author: Josh Hovsha
Published: 04 Mar 2015
Part One of an investigation into the challenge of xenophobia and integration within liberal democracy. This study focuses upon challenges arising through Islamic immigration in Western Europe. Issues highlighted include: the rise of the European Right, French Secularism and the Charlie Hebdo Attacks.
Briefs International
The 2015/16 Budget and Development
Author: Eythan Morris
Published: 26 Feb 2015
This brief focuses on how the Budget proposals impact on development. The short term outlook for economic growth is relatively poor, so a better framework for development is needed to offset resource constraints of the current economic outlook. The Budget speech announced steps to improve investment, including investment in human capital and infrastructure, contain corruption, and lower the burden of regulation.
Economy Briefs
A Brief History of the HSF and the Hawks
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 25 Feb 2015
A summary of the HSF's legal interventions regarding the Hawks.
Crime Briefs Building Democratic Institutions Upholding the Rule of Law Fighting Corruption Securing Accountability
The Hawks and the Alleged Zimbabwean Rendition: Let the Courts Decide
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 25 Feb 2015
The recent unlawful suspension of senior Hawks officials has centered on alleged renditions of Zimbabwean Foreign Nationals and the Reports made by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate to the National Prosecuting Authority. Some confidential documents have leaked into the public domain.
Crime Briefs
Liberalism and Identity Politics II – South Africa
Author: Charles Simkins
Published: 19 Feb 2015
South Africa has been a segmented society for centuries. It still is. For example, marriages across ethnic and religious lines are relatively rare. Ethnic identities were crystallised into a system of racial classification by the apartheid state. This is a context in which identity politics might have had disastrous consequences and it was often predicted that apartheid would end in a general conflagration. Despite substantial political violence in the decade before 1994, this did not happen. For the last century and a half, infectious disease has been the more important killer. Deaths from AIDS in the opening few years of this century – some of which could have been avoided by more rapid roll out of treatment - exceeded all the mortality from war and political violence since 1850.
Briefs Politics