New, updated BRICS investment model for Africa needed
African countries must overhaul their current investment model with BRICS countries, which is not working optimally for the continent, if they are to unlock…
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Building the New Development Bank
As South Africa takes the presidency of BRICS, the setting up of the New Development Bank must rank as the major single success story…
IBSA could function as a democratic organisation within BRICS itself
Before the rise of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the alliance between India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) promised to align…
Introducing the 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…
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…
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…