Mass protests and the violent reaction of the state indicate that SA is in a period of possible rearticulation of politics, says Andile Mngxitama.
What do the election lists doing the rounds mean for our democracy? The M&G’s Phillip de Wet talks us through it on our M&G Newsroom radio show.
The Jewish state is under fire for its stance on African asylum seekers and support of human rights abusers.
It’s time the ANC did some soul-searching. It’s time the party returned to its "first principle": justice and equality for all, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Thousands have marched in Hong Kong to demand a greater say in how their future leaders are chosen.
But does the worldwide acclaim he is accorded signify victory – or does it mark Mandela’s defeat?
The public still cannot read Thuli Madonsela’s Nkandla report and the investigation into Arno Lamoer appears to have reached a standstill.
Was anyone listening when Nelson Mandela said South Africa would never return to an unjust system? It seems not.
How is it possible that South Africa is a better place now than in 1994, asks a disgruntled South African expatriate.
US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has called on young South Africans to go to school because their country was "free but not equal".
South Africa is anything but a caring democracy, Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele has said.
Access to justice for all, particularly the impecunious, is a central requirement of the constitutional idea that animates our democracy.
As the new year creakily gathers steam, press standards and regulation are under scrutiny in both South Africa and the United Kingdom.
A new social order needs to be based on a fully participatory democracy and selflessness, writes Jacklyn Cock.
According to an annual report, democracy around the world has been in decline for the seventh year in a row.
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.