Building inclusive, sustainable national water and energy resource governance mechanisms
Southern Africa is a region with great potential. However, the region faces a number of critical challenges, among them water and energy challenges that…
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Civil Society Participation in Provincial Legislature programme
Democracy Works Foundation in partnership with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy are the implementing partners in a three-year programme called, Civil Society Participation in…
Towards Inclusion: Drakensberg Inclusive Growth Forum
The inaugural Drakensberg Inclusive Growth Forum hosted by the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation brought together individuals from the government and public sector, civil society, trade…
Speaking uncomfortable truths to your “own” side and to the “other” side
South Africa will have to move away from slogan-based debates on policies if the country is to get out of its current economic, social…
Democracy is not a spectator sport
The past decade should remind South Africans that democracy does not always work the way that it should. Democracy remains elusive, it doesn’t simply…
The DA’s white, liberal establishment has to face the facts
Indications from the just concluded federal congress of the Democratic Alliance (DA) are that it will take some time yet, if ever it should…
Winnie had to ‘fall’ for South Africa to rise
During the 1980s Winnie Mandela was the public symbol, face, and embodiment of the radical domestic turn of the struggle against apartheid, when the…
Winnie Mandela’s legacy
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died Monday at age 81. As she is eulogised, there will be many who point to her perceived failures. They will call her a…
Why the ANC won’t be able to stay in power by unconstitutional means
Very few African liberation movements – especially those who had armed wings during the struggle for liberation – which went on to come to…
Affirming human dignity towards non-racialism
Anti-racism week has recently ended, culminating in Human Rights Day. To mark 21 March as Human Rights Day confirms the democratic intention to overturn…