Dennis Davis finds much to applaud in former competition tribunal head David Lewis’s book Thieves at the Table.
Non-profit organisations are facing a serious funding crisis. It is the kind of crisis that has the potential to threaten SA’s young democracy.
Comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys says South Africans could face a new system of oppression if they don’t get more involved and hold government accountable.
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/ 28 November 2011
How will historians remember 2011, the year that, according to satirists, has already used up the next decade’s entire supply of news?
Swaziland’s trade unions have vowed to continue peaceful protest aimed at pressuring the government to step down.
UNDP director for democratic governance <strong>Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi</strong> speaks to the <em>M&G</em> about democracy in Africa.
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/ 21 December 2010
Can the poor and the middle classes open a path to change the country?
Burma’s newly freed democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, returned to work for the first time in years on Monday.
The Aglican Archbishop of Cape Town has praised the late Frederik Van Zyl Slabber for his role in South Africa’s peaceful transition to democracy.
Sweet 16 and already showing signs of strain; that is the mood that hangs over South Africa in the month we celebrate the first democratic elections.
Freedom is not a six-year-old with a flag, or a passive recipient of "delivery". It is a joyous, anxious, endless battle, writes <b>Nic Dawes</b>.
SA on Thursday marks the moment that Nelson Mandela emerged after 27 years behind bars, ushering in a transition from apartheid to democracy.
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/ 19 October 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday launched a bitter attack on the state of democracy in Russia, saying elections had turned into a mockery.
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/ 26 September 2009
Being a person of colour in the DA is not for sissies. Mandy Rossouw talks to some party members.
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/ 15 September 2009
Organising a conference on democracy was always going to be a challenge for the Kremlin.
Posters of Barack Obama festooned the streets of the Ghana capital, Accra, on Thursday ahead his visit.
Burma’s junta chief Than Shwe urged parties to shun foreign ideologies if they want democracy as the military put on a show of might on Friday.
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/ 25 February 2009
Ferial Haffajee: Possibly one of the finest public documents yet published, the 2025 Scenarios paint three states of our nation in 16 years.
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/ 24 February 2009
Zackie Achmat: local and global inequality touches everyone. It cannot be resolved in a single election cycle.
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/ 24 February 2009
Lebo Mashile: It would take at least two 9/11s and a tsunami for South Africans to be thrown into a state of panic.
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/ 24 February 2009
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein: What will be the state of our nation in the future? What is our vision for South Africa?
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/ 24 February 2009
Mandy Rossouw finds out why South Africa so badly needs the good news
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/ 23 February 2009
From culture to compassion, a range of prominent South Africans describe the key challenges as they see them in the coming election.
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/ 27 January 2009
A pilgrimage could prevent thousands of Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslims from voting in an upcoming election.
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/ 16 December 2008
Nelson Mandela collected yet another laurel on Monday, this time from an elite forum of fellow former world leaders.
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/ 20 November 2008
An ANC meeting has been called off after a reportedly drunk group of outsiders caused a disruption.
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/ 19 November 2008
ANC’s vision of a developmental state is detrimental to the poor, the unemployed and the politically unconnected.
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/ 13 November 2008
What can be done to ensure that SA’s failing public agencies fulfil their constitutional and legal obligation to service information requests?
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/ 7 November 2008
Has the Polokwane moment ushered in a more material experience of democracy for ordinary members inside the ANC?
Most South Africans were still in the equivalent of the biblical wilderness, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2008
The past few days have proven the durability of South Africa’s constitutional order, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Sunday.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday that there is a responsibility by all of those of his era to construct a deep democracy in SA.