The strongest victims in the world
It is clear now that the decision to focus on peace as the founding principle of our new democracy was taken at the expense…
Publications
Democracy Works Foundation intends to contribute to fostering democratic culture by providing critical thinking and policy solutions.
We will do so by using our different media and different publication formats, in addition to partnerships with established media corporations.
This page captures our different publication formats. You will find articles (opinion pieces and contemplations), blogs (more personal accounts of events and work), papers (longer and more professional and academic analysis), policy briefs (short analysis and policy recommendations) and books published by our people.
Look in the sidebar on the drop-down menu for the different format categories.
DISCLAIMER:
Democracy Works Foundation does not necessarily always agree with everything our contributors publicise, film or photograph on our platforms. We have a stringent but tolerant editorial policy and strive to always be constructive in our approach while not remaining silent on difficult issues.
But we equally strive to offer online platforms to our Democracy Works people so they can air their opinions and ideas without censorship. Therefore we will not always agree with contributors.
Africa should stand up for Burundi
President Jacob Zuma’s wealth of experience in uncomfortable situations and strong-man crisis confrontation gives him appropriate experience for his new role: In a nod…
SA’s economic crisis mimicking that of Brazil
In Brazil, a drought combined with an overlapping fiscal crisis and lack of public and market trust in the government’s ability to deal with these,…
TNI, New Politics partner
Democracy Works Foundation has built a new institutional partnership with the Transnational Institute (TNI), based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to collaborate on designing a ‘New…
The murky transition terrain in Zimbabwe
After the resounding win (warts and all) by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) in the elections of July 2013, doom and gloom…
South Africa’s democracy at work
Tuesday 9 February was a good day for democracy in South Africa. People vs power came to the fore through submissions in the Constitutional…
Is democracy on the retreat in Africa?
Given the terrible new human rights abuses in African countries such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR),…
South Africa’s BRICS Challenges
Every BRICS country is in the alliance to hard-headedly advance its strategic economic, trade and geopolitical interests. South Africa will only benefit from its…
Why South Africans suffer from institutional disaffection
A consideration of voter turnout compared to general protests by citizens suggests that South Africans are currently suffering from institutional disaffection rather than political…
South Africa’s Pistorius Problem
In October, a scandal broke at one of South Africa’s most prestigious private boarding schools. A group of boys from Hilton College in the…