For many visitors, Johannesburg is seen as purely a business destination or stopover point. Most guidebooks advise a history-themed day trip to take in a combination of Gold Reef City, the Apartheid Museum and the former township of Soweto, or suggest a drive outside of the city to the Cradle of Humankind or the Krugesdorp Nature Reserve....
Since the establishment of a democratic South Africa in 1994, and the creation of nine provinces from the original four, the role of regional government has become a prominent topic in political debate in the country. In the 1990s several parties called for a greater role for provincial authorities, to counter the power of the central government in...
Horses are believed to have been part of Bahrain’s culture for as long as 4000 years, dating back to the Dilmun civilisation. The predominance in modern times of the Arabian horse in Bahrain is often linked to the Al Khalifa tribe, the nation’s ruling family, which came to the archipelago in 1783. Since that time, the ruling sheikhs have...
In the context of the GCC Bahrain stands out for its high level of national participation in the workforce. Since it first took root in the 1970s the financial services sector has now achieved 70% Bahrainisation, with up to 14,062 people employed in investment banks, private equity houses and insurance firms. The financial services sector,...
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