Working Paper 12: Defending the Constitution
Introduction The persistent attacks on the Constitution by populists, the incompetent and the corrupt have undermined the public legitimacy of the supreme law, unleashing…
South Africa
Regional Dialogue on Digital Technology Political Parties and Elections
Political parties are considered the pillars of contemporary representative democracy. This is true as representative democracy requires intermediary actors between state and society and…
Policy Brief 42: Role of Legal Civil Society Organisations in Combatting Corruption
South Africa’s legal profession – both public and private, certain law firms and some judiciary members have been key enablers in state capture, and…
THIS DAY IN HISTORY |the two significant events that led to the Day of Reconciliation in South Africa
16th Dec in South Africa is a day of two significant historical events in 1838 and 1961. In 1838, the Battle of Blood River…
Paper 11: Lessons from Siemens for South African companies caught up in corruption
The manner in which German engineering firm, Siemens, changed its profits-at-all-cost corporate culture, cleaned up its ethics and held employees found guilty of wrongdoing…
Policy Brief 39: Strengthening Public Accountability to make Democracy Work
Democracy Works Academy 2021 Mentors
Meet the Democracy Works Academy Mentors for the 2021 Fellows cohort. Our mentors are Melandre Frost – Research Specialist for the City of Tshwane,…
Policy Brief 38: Fostering a Common Africanness Based on Democracy, Diversity and Solidarity
Africa’s bitter history, of colonialism and apartheid, with its accompanying ethnic division, conflict, and state-sponsored economic inequalities has made the challenge of cobbling together…
Policy Brief 37: South Africa Needs a New Democratic Governance Model to overcome the multiple crises caused by Covid-19.
South Africa’s governance model is broken. Failure to change SAs governance model will lead to the country being unable to overcome the health, social…
Conversation with Democracy Podcast Episode 8: The advocacy of the Treatment Action Campaign.
Daniel Mathebula, Provincial Trainer at the Treatment Action Campaign in Limpopo, speaks about the role of the organisation and the civil movement’s aim to…