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Election manifestos have very little impact on voters, political analysts said on Monday, after a flurry of manifesto launches by various political parties over the weekend. "Many people do not...
Cope, born out of Thabo Mbeki's political demise, will lay its ideological cards on the table next week when it formally launches itself as a political party. But commentators -- and the breakaway...
This report, by Pamela Masiko-Kambala of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, discusses reasons why South Africa should not change its electoral system.
This document contains submissions by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa to the Portfolio Committees on Justice and Constitutional Development, and Safety and Security, and the Standing...
Address by Advocate Johnny de Lange, MP, Deputy Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development, on the Second Reading: Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Bill, Constitution Fifteenth Amendment...
Government's failure to provide a persuasive explanation for its decision to disband the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), or Scorpions, has created understandable scepticism, the Institute...
This document is an overview of a report on the challenges that the Aids epidemic poses to the development of democracy in Africa. The full report is available from the Institute for Democracy in...
This paper by the The Institute for Democracy in South Africa
(Idasa), analyses the policy and budget action of one government
department – social development – in relation to...
Ordinary Africans do not share the experts' forecasts of the dire
consequences of the Aids pandemic on the continent, according to
the latest Afrobarometer survey. Briefing the media on Thursday,...