Cool Politics Café Brings Dialogue on Polarisation to the Human Rights Festival at Constitution Hill
This year’s Human Rights Festival at Constitution Hill will host the next Cool Politics Café on Saturday, 28 March 2026. The Human Rights Festival…
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This program is Democracy Works Foundation’s analytical back-bone. It is our think-tank. The program allows us to track and monitor challenges to democracy.
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Watch: Cool Politics Café on Political Polarisation in South Africa
Watch this powerful conversation, moderated by Tsholofelo Nakedi, featuring an intergenerational panel of political actors and civil society leaders, including Mbali Ntuli, Zulaikha Patel,…
Cool Politics Café: The Politics of Polarisation
Background and Rationale Polarisation has been described as a hyper-problem in that, when it is present in society, it greatly complicates the possibility of…
Event announcement: In person Cool Politics Cafe to be hosted in Johannesburg
We’re pleased to announce and invite you to the upcoming Cool Politics Café Theme: Political Polarisation in South Africa Tagline: “Different Voices. One Democracy”…
DWF’s Polarisation Project in Southern Africa
In an era defined by division, building bridges across political, generational, and ideological lines is critical. Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) is responding to this…
Political Parties in Southern Africa: State of Affairs – a comparative study
Political parties are central to modern-day representative democracy. Given the extent to which they provide policy choices to voters, it is acknowledged that representative…
Press Release: Zambian Women and Youth Movements present Manifestos to August 2021 Elections Presidential Candidates
As political parties and candidates step up their election campaigns to canvas votes, this week Zambian Women and Youth Movements launched and presented their…
Assessing the Country Specific Measures at Country Level
Zambia recorded its first case of Covid-19 on 18 March 2020. The Government through the Ministry of Health and with support from cooperating partners…
DWF starts Emergency Measures Monitor
The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the world, from public health to the economy. This unprecedented situation has prompted countries to adopt extraordinary measures to…