The Election Machinery Picks up Steam
The ANC will have to put on a brave face with Zuma at the helm for local govt elections. Disclaimer: a full stadium does…
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:
“Cuba libre” and democracy
The relationship between South Africa and Cuba – much like South Africa’s relationship with Palestine or Libya – is a romance of love, ideology…
Freedom Day 2016: SA still fraught and divided
10 April 1993: all South Africans know where they were when the news broke of Chris Hani’s assassination, just like 27 April 1994 –…
When shame means nothing at all
Our outrage is aimed at Zuma’s Nkandla failure rather than at the regression the ANC has delivered to the doorsteps of the people it…
South Africa Zuma Impeachment Analysis
BBC’s Focus on Africa speaks to William Gumede, Chairperson of Democracy Works Foundation. Topic of this podcast looks at South Africa and the…
A seminal judgement for our constitutional democracy
The Constitutional Court judgement on 31 March 2016 which ruled that President Zuma violated the Constitution by not paying the money for upgrades to…
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ON THE “NKANDLA MATTER”, by Thabo Mbeki
On 31 March, 2016, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng conveyed the unanimous decision of the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the matter of “Economic Freedom Fighters…
India’s economic miracle
As the Chinese economy wobbles, a growing India has the potential to offer increasing investment opportunities for Africa. While growth in some of its…
The rural vs urban development bias in Africa
African countries need to break the colonial-era development pattern whereby economic growth takes place island-like, centred on urban regions, while the surrounding rural areas…
The SA Con Court ruling and a letter by Ahmed Kathrada
The enitre March 31 judgement by the South African Constitutional Court on the Nkandla Presidential homestead matter can be read by clicking here. In the…