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Curing South Africa's “Sea Blindness” - Cyril Ramaphosa, SONA and the Indian Ocean Rim Association
South Africa got its new Valentine shortly before the clock ticked to midnight on 14th February 2018, as Jacob Zuma exited and Cyril Ramaphosa became first, ...
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The lockdown ends at midnight on 16 April 2020. What happens next?
This brief reviews the current situation in South Africa resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and analyses Government’s alternatives when the lockdown period ...
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Electoral Reform – What Political Parties Have To Say
Discussions about electoral reform in South Africa have again come to the forefront over the last few weeks. This brief succinctly discusses the attitudes of ...
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The South African Electoral System
This is the first in a series of Briefs dealing with elections in South Africa. This Brief unpacks some of the main components of the South African General ...
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South Africa’s Local Elections
With the 2014 General elections behind us, it is not too soon to start focusing on Local elections. This brief unpacks the components of South Africa's local ...
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An Assault on Parliamentary Democracy?
The recent behaviour of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and the responses to it by the African National Congress (ANC), and the Democratic Alliance (DA), ...
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Just who is undermining Parliament?
"[T]he NEC noted the extent to which Parliamentary processes have descended into chaos and the unruly offensive on the ANC in Parliament, Parliament itself and ...
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Liberalism and Identity Politics I – Conceptual and Global Issues
Globally, the Cold War era has been succeeded by both the salience of market oriented economic development and the growth of identity politics. Understanding ...
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Liberalism and Identity Politics II – South Africa
South Africa has been a segmented society for centuries. It still is. For example, marriages across ethnic and religious lines are relatively rare. Ethnic ...
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Constitutional Democracy and Revolutionary Talk
One can support a constitutional democracy on the grounds that it is a better form of government than any other. One can be a revolutionary, dissatisfied with ...
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