CPLO roundtable: what has the NDP accomplished so far?
On the 23rd of September 2014 the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office hosted a Round Table discussion on the National Development Plan. The speakers were…
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Democracy Works Foundation offers 4 core programs. We speak of the pillars that our Foundation is built on.
Our 4 programs are:
Deepening Democratic Culture
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Monitoring
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Policy Brief 2: Africa Democracy Trends 2014
Can we see improvement of democracy building in Africa? The question is often asked whether, broadly, we can start to see an overall positive…
Churches ruthlessly exploit insecurities
Failures by mainstream churches to find answers to the causes of African angst have pushed people into the hands of avaricious charismatic churches. Charismatic…
The backlash against African women
A few weeks ago, as I was leaving my office, I stopped at a traffic light and watched a young woman cross the street…
William Gumede speaks of founding Democracy Works Foundation
Policy Brief 1: an Economic Indaba for South Africa
South Africa’s perfect storm of structural crises South Africa is experiencing a perfect storm of a number of simultaneously deep-rooted structural crises: political, economic…
Can Libya’s House of Representatives restore order? – A true national dialogue is underway in Tripoli’s legislature
On 25 June 2014, Libyans voted in their second democratic election. In an effort to curtail the violent impact of factionalism on the polls,…
Working Democracy – Perspectives on South Africa’s Parliament at 20 Years
Download the book Working Democracy, Perspectives on South Africa’s Parliament at 20 Years by Christi van der Westhuizen as PDF here: CvdW – working-democracy-book
Mulder and Mantashe: ‘Whites’ vs ‘Africans’
Christi van der Westhuizen examines the operations of ‘whiteness’ and claims of ‘Africanness’ in recent comments by Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder and ANC…
Why do South Africans vote the way they do? [Part 2]
The panelists continue in answering Democracy Works Chairperson William Gumede’s question of why South Africans vote in particular and perhaps predictable ways in 2014.