South Africa has been a segmented society for centuries. It still is. For example, marriages across ethnic and religious lines are relatively rare. Ethnic ...

Globally, the Cold War era has been succeeded by both the salience of market oriented economic development and the growth of identity politics. Understanding ...

Deepening Democracy Brief: Parliamentary Accountability

This brief discusses Parliament’s oversight duty (over, among others, organs of state) and Parliament’s accountability mechanism – the electorate. It briefly ...

This is the first brief of a six part series. It provides a background to the current debate on political party funding. The second brief deals with the ...

This is the second brief of a six part series. The first part provides a background to the current debate on political party funding. This brief deals with ...

This is the third part of a six brief series. The first provided a background to the current debate on political party funding, and the second dealt with the ...

POLITICAL PARTY FUNDING IV - THE GLOBAL PICTURE

This is the fourth part of a six brief series. The first provided a background to the current debate on political party funding, the second described with the ...

Political Party Funding V - Political Party Submissions

This is the fifth brief of a six part series. The first provided a background to the current debate on political party funding. The second brief dealt with the ...

Political Party Funding VI - Civil Society Submissions

This is the final brief of a six part series. The first provided a background to the current debate on political party funding. The second brief dealt with the ...

Political Party Funding VII - The Treasury Bombshell

This brief outlines the presentation by the National Treasury on 1 September 2017 to the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding of Political Parties and ...