Author: Anton van Dalsen & Charles Simkins
Published:
13
Jun
2019
This brief investigates the oft-repeated assertion that according to the World Bank’s Gini index, South Africa is the most unequal society in the world.
Briefs
Social Justice
Author: Charles Simkins
Published:
12
Jun
2019
In these two briefs, Charles Simkins traces the evolution of the South African Left and Right and considers their respective futures.
Briefs
Politics
Author: Charles Simkins
Published:
12
Jun
2019
In these two briefs, Charles Simkins traces the evolution of the South African Left and Right and considers their respective futures.
Briefs
Politics
Author: Anton van Dalsen
Published:
10
Jun
2019
This brief analyses the magnitude of the problem posed by Eskom’s massive debt, coupled with the lack of information on what is being done about it.
Economy
Briefs
Energy
Author: Kimera Chetty
Published:
22
May
2019
The Sixth Parliament officially sits on 22 May 2019, and sets in motion renewed opportunities to engage our public representatives and hold them accountable to their Constitutional mandate. The HSF will consider these questions through a series of briefs exploring how to deepen our democracy. This brief explains what petitions are, and how to use them.
Briefs
Politics
Governance
Promoting Constitutional Democracy
Author: Charles Simkins
Published:
02
May
2019
Pierre de Vos published an article entitled Why Ramaphosa is probably not in a position to end corruption and patronage in Daily Maverick on 29 April, drawing on a study by Wits Professor Karl von Holdt. This brief discusses the completeness and the plausibility of their arguments.
Briefs
Fighting Corruption
Securing Accountability
Author: Charles Simkins
Published:
25
Apr
2019
The particular horror evoked by genocide exists for three main reasons. Genocide is murder at a mass scale, it is usually perpetrated against the defenseless and, although tensions may build up over decades or even centuries, it can flare up very rapidly.
Briefs
International
Comparative
Author: Lee-Anne Germanos
Published:
18
Apr
2019
A very popular, yet grossly under recognised, feature and weapon of war is sexual violence. Sexual violence, like artillery, is used to cause destruction through the terrorisation of a population or as an assertion of power by belligerent forces. Rape, when committed as part of a widespread attack, is also an effective tool for bringing about the destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group – otherwise known as genocide.
Crime
GBV
Briefs
Social Justice
Police
Health
Does the World Bank’s Gini index show that South Africa is the most unequal society in the world?
