July 17, 2020
By: Dr. Jason Musyoka Background As Covid-19 continues to overwhelm the global economy, governments, businesses and ordinary citizens are scrambling for political legitimacy, stability and survival […]
July 16, 2020
By: Imraan Buccus Not that long ago right-wing authoritarian populism seemed unstoppable. With Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro and Naredra Modi as the three horsemen of the […]
July 16, 2020
By: Stef Terblanche With a few exceptions, the multiple failures across municipal government in South Africa reflect the worst of what is wrong in the country. […]
July 16, 2020
By: Sanusha Naidu Introduction In his long-awaited address to the nation on Sunday evening (3 July), President Ramaphosa delivered a somber update on the political, economic, […]
July 15, 2020
By: Steven Friedman THIS country would have far fewer Covid-19 infections if the government had seen most of its people as a partner, not a problem. […]
July 13, 2020
Combating Disinformation in times of Pandemic: How to Spot Disinformation on Your Social Media Feeds
By: Maria Lauda Goyayi At times of crisis, especially new and inadequately understood threat, rumours, false news, conspiracy theories and misleading information are quickly born and […]
July 7, 2020
By: Dr. Paul Kariuki The auditor general’s report on municipalities for the 2018-2019 financial year produced a grim picture. It was a scathing report given the […]
July 3, 2020
By: Peter Hendricks Introduction On 26 November 2013, the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (“POPI Act”) was passed into law. This act […]
June 30, 2020
By: Aubrey Matshiqi Elections are important, but what should be more important is the experience of citizens between and beyond elections. It is the quality of […]
June 26, 2020
By: Azwimpheleli Langalanga June is a special month in South Africa. Not because of the chilly weather in the highveld, the clear blue skies or the […]
June 22, 2020
By: Sanusha Naidu On June 11, 2020, the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land, ruled that as it stands the electoral act is unconstitutional […]
June 17, 2020
By: Dr. Paul Kariuki. There is a general sense that traditional politics and representative democracy fails to attract the attention of young people. This is despite […]
June 17, 2020
By: Steve Friedman Democratic citizenship means holding the government to account – not doing its job. This is always so – but is particularly so in […]
June 16, 2020
By: Aubrey Matshiqi I was thirteen when Hector Pieterson was murdered by the apartheid police on 16 June 1976. Ten years later, there was an insurrectionary […]
June 16, 2020
By: Bonolo Makgale The mountain of complaints which were stacked up against the ANC led government relating to corruption and lack of service delivery in under-resourced […]
June 15, 2020
By: Stef Terblanche. When trying to answer the question in the title, one first has to consider just how wide Covid-19 touched and disrupted what we […]
June 15, 2020
By: Jason Musyoka (Ph. D) So far in this century, the 2007-2008 global economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed our society in fundamental ways. […]
June 15, 2020
By: Imraan Buccus Unemployment is among South Africa’s most serious challenges. Youth unemployment is a bloodbath with close to 60% of South Africa’s young people unemployed. […]
June 4, 2020
By Aubrey Matshiqi As I indicated in the last article, the author George Orwell, once warned that the fact that one lives in a democracy does […]
May 25, 2020
By : Mbalenhle.N.F Mkhize It is no secret that the coronavirus has affected everybody in South Africa and the world in general, but the fact remains […]