South Africa’s Human Rights Hypocrisy
In 2012, just before Fatou Bensouda began her tenure as the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, she addressed a large forum of African activists…
In 2012, just before Fatou Bensouda began her tenure as the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, she addressed a large forum of African activists…
Unless the development of human capital as widely as possible is at the centre of all South Africa’s development strategies, efforts to raise economic…
Outgoing Johannesburg Stock Exchange chief executive Russell Loubser’s recent slapping of a female Mail & Guardian reporter’s behind at a press conference serves as a…
Questions are being increasingly asked about whether there are any aspects of South Africa’s model constitution, adopted in 1996, that ought to be amended to…
The wave of deadly xenophobic attacks against foreigners of African descent that has shamed South Africa, and the astonishingly tardy response by the government,…
If you ask South Africans of my generation to name the most important political event of their lives, many will cite the assassination of…
Nigeria’s elections in 2015 were the fifth round since the transition from military to civilian rule in 1999. Out of the almost 180 million…
On 20 February 2015 Democracy Works’ William Gumede presented his analysis of the State of the Nation for a mixed audience of academics, professionals…
On the 23rd of September 2014 the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office hosted a Round Table discussion on the National Development Plan. The speakers were…
Can we see improvement of democracy building in Africa? The question is often asked whether, broadly, we can start to see an overall positive…