We must speak out to safeguard our democracy
As we inch closer to the end of the year, the ANC elective conference is preoccupying the mind of any conscientious observer of South…
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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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Policy Brief 14: Combating Corruption in South Africa
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The Democracy We Want
The Democracy Works Occasional Paper ‘The Democracy We Want’ presents the institution’s views on what a more equitable, inclusive, sustainable and healthy democracy in…
Leadership vacuum is costing us dearly
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less…
Jacob Zuma: The president who would be chief
President Jacob Zuma’s presidential style has undermined the South African constitution, the rule of law and rational policymaking. It has undermined the democratic idea…
The only result acceptable to Odinga is the one where he is declared president
Kenya’s Supreme Court made history when it nullified the results of the August 8 election in which President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner….
A perfect study in a lack of accountability
“This presidency is a crime in progress.” Agang’s Andries Tlouamma might have inadvertently come up with the best response during last week’s presidential question…
Making the Lesotho military part of the solution
August 30, 2017 marked exactly three years since the failure of an attempted coup in Lesotho on 30 August, 2014. Whether this was a…
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Zimbabwe looks for Mugabe’s successor after a surreal month
Before she landed herself in hot diplomatic water by allegedly attacking a South African model with a power cord, Zimbabwe’s notoriously ill-tempered first lady,…
Active citizenship and good governance – how do we get there?
How do we move forward in the current South African crisis? How do we transform in meaningful ways, to go from a society “becoming”…