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Post-Apartheid South Africa has elected to do the diplomatic soft-shoe shuffle in matters of human rights, good governance and democracy on the continent. On…
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Post-Apartheid South Africa has elected to do the diplomatic soft-shoe shuffle in matters of human rights, good governance and democracy on the continent. On…
Despite 400 complaints from opposition parties about alleged irregularities, international observer missions have hailed the Independent Electoral Commission for a “credible, fair, free and…
Can the Democratic Alliance chart a way forward for liberalism and rid itself of a pernicious form of whiteness, asks Christi van der Westhuizen….
Worryingly South Africa’s model democratic constitution is increasingly wrongly made the scapegoat for government failures to create jobs, slash poverty and provide quality public…
White people still accrue benefits from their whiteness, even if they claim victimhood. A few years ago at a discussion on race and redress,…
I dreamed that President Zuma delivered this SONA speech last week. In it, he pledged to end the violent service delivery protests and fix…
After weeks of civil unrest in June, there remains no clarity as to the long-term social and political impact of the Turkish protests which…
Since independence from colonialism and white-minority regimes, individual African countries have, in the context of the global order, suffered from inequality in power –…
The Asian financial crisis, which followed the wave of democratisation after the end of the Cold War, sparked an intense debate over the concept…
As the country appears to plod along aimlessly with moral decay, rampant corruption and public service delivery failures, the church must be a voice…