Paper 7: Assessing COVID-19 response measures – Eswatini
The arrival of the novel Coronavirus in Eswatini on 14 March 2020, and the resulting Government lockdown measures, have brought fears of media repression…
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Paper 6: Assessing COVID-19 response measures – Botswana
Botswana recorded its first case of COVID-19 on 30 March 2020. The Government, through the Ministry of Health and with support from Cooperating Partners,…
Paper 5: Why civil society should be eligible for Covid-19 emergency funding
South Africa’s civil society organisations, which provide employment for substantial numbers of people, public services and social stability, have been devastated by the financial…
Paper 4: Freedom of expression and Covid-19 in Africa
Under the guise of tackling Covid-19, many African governments are stifling freedom of expression, restricting access to information and undermining the basic human rights…
Paper 3: 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…
Paper 2: Power and Inequality in Africa
Since independence from colonialism and white-minority regimes, individual African countries have, in the context of the global order, suffered from inequality in power –…
Paper 1: Delivering a democratic developmental state in South Africa
The Asian financial crisis, which followed the wave of democratisation after the end of the Cold War, sparked an intense debate over the concept…
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