South Africa
The Maputo Declaration - Moving from Transparency to Accountability
Eastern and Southern Africa Meeting
You can also view this declaration in PDF.
8 – 11 May. Maputo, Mozambique.
We, as coalition members of Publish What You Pay from 12 Eastern and Southern African countries, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, met under the auspices of Publish What You Pay (PWYP), on the theme of moving from transparency to accountability.
Transparency is the cure for the "resources curse"
“Transparency is the cure for the resources curse” appeared in the South African paper the Mail & Guardian. Click here to read the article (PDF).
Poor feels curse of black gold
This article was originally published on page 10 of Pretoria News on September 22, 2008
South African oil workers Dan Laarman and Robert Berrie have been released after a mercifully short period as hostages in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta.
They, and most of the world, were probably unaware of the devastating impact the oil industry has had on Africa.
In 2001 Washington called for a major diversification of US oil supplies away from the politically volatile Persian Gulf to “friendlier” sub-Saharan Africa.
