Anti-democratic element in student movements holds warnings for South Africa
South Africa is sinking into a political, social and economic crisis. Running in parallel is a growing disillusionment about the post-apartheid project of transformation….
Monitoring
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.
We believe it is important for an organisation engaged in development work to have a strong internal data-collection, research and analytical capacity. Why? To ensure that our development projects are based on real demand, on real concerns and needs from real people, and that our projects are based on evidence and on thorough analysis.
Our projects in our Monitoring program:
The retreat of neo-liberalism
For decades African countries have been forced by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to implement neo-liberal policies, including opening their markets to…
WHAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING IN TSHWANE?
One can’t help but feel that this week’s violent protests in Tshwane are a multi-layered and complex problem. Centre-stage is a political party that has lost…
Fractured democracies in Africa
Flawed, manipulated and poorly capacitated political institutions undermine African countries’ efforts to build equitable and prosperous democracies. Yet, unless Africa’s political institutions are turned…
The age of impunity in SA
If there was a hashtag for this past week it would probably be #ageofimpunity. How else can one describe Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson presiding over…
Policy Brief 4: Combating Corruption
1. Introduction Corruption, generally defined as the ‘abuse of public office for private gain’, is becoming so widespread in South Africa, that unless it…
Egypt, Africa’s second largest economy
Egypt recovering from the political turmoil, economic freefall and social instability of the 2011 Arab youth uprisings, has according to the International Monetary Fund…
Murder and Mining in South Africa
The hitmen came in a white Polo with a rotating blue lamp on the roof. Two men got out the car and knocked at the…
Kenya on the up & up
Kenya’s economy grew 5.6 percent last year, according to figures by Kenya’s National Bureau of Statistics, making it one of the fastest-growing in Africa….
Africa’s dual governance system
The great African theorist Peter Ekeh in the 1970s, called this phenomenon the “dual publics”, postulating there are often dual or multiple ‘publics’ and…