Zuma’s nuclear plans thwarted – for now
It’s been another not-so-good week and a bit for South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Apart from being booed at the Congress of South African…
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The Democracy We Want
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Democracy Works Foundation Statement: Parliamentary vote on the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma
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South Africa’s watershed moment
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Democracy Defenders Dialogue
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Will Malema succeed Zuma?
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SA stuck between hope and despair
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How do we renew the colours of our Constitution?
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EU-SA Inspiring Thinkers Debate Series: #Corruption and #HumanRights
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Parliaments must clean up their act
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Citizens must unite to save corruption-crippled SA
Parliament has become a site of factional ANC struggles, with Speaker Baleka Mbete presiding over the House in a compromised manner, due to her…
African leaders are masters at ‘post-truth’ politics
“Post-truth” politics may have recently trended, but since independence from colonialism African leaders have been the most adroit exponents of manipulating the truth, distorting…
Diversity, Division and a World of Difference
It seems two decades later, there is little holding us together aside from our shared history. We are still on one side the oppressor…
Dreams in a time of war
What is the definition of war? When is a country at war? Is our country now at war with itself? These are questions that…
Reflections on a new activism to challenge a state comprador elite
The recognition of the need for a new activism was accompanied by a realisation that while it was necessary, it was not a sufficient…
EU-SA Inspiring Thinkers Series Report
The “EU Inspiring Thinkers Series” is composed of dialogues and discussions on critical and challenging themes that respond to the interests of South African…
Ramaphosa may again be the ‘nearly man’ of SA politics
These are difficult days for our country and as the axing of Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas has shown, in President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet…
Zuma’s brazen venality may be exhausting even his ANC allies
After months of trying, South Africa’s President Zuma finally fired his finance minister, Pravin Gordhan. The move was met with huge disquiet within the…
Active citizenry must organise for change
South Africans currently appear to be rising up as active citizens with the primary aim of removing Jacob Zuma as the President of the…