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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansWhen I first said that I was going to write a book about the history of democracy in Africa, quite a few people responded with a joke. That will be one of the world’s shortest books, up there with the compendium of great English cooking,...
·almost 5 years ago
Tunisia has been popularly hailed as the only successful political transition to emerge from the wider Arab Spring movement. The culmination of this transition was the election of Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi in 2014. Essebsi’s victory woul...
·over 4 years ago
It’s two years since a surprise leadership change took place in Ethiopia. Introducing himself with a historic speech to the nation, the new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed preached democracy as the only future for the country of more than 11...
·over 3 years ago
Zambia is one of the fastest eroding democracies in the world. This is according to the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-dem), one of the most trusted sources of information on indicators of democratic progress or regression. The projec...
·almost 3 years ago
Former South African president Jacob Zuma says he won’t comply with a Constitutional Court order to appear before a commission on corruption. It can be tough when you are a former president in a democracy you have attempted to subv...
·about 3 years ago
On 21 January 2021, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the Political Party Funding Act. The law will come into effect on 1 April 2021. Under this law, political parties with seats in Parliament will get some operational fundin...
·about 3 years ago
Claims of racial bias against black pupils at affluent private schools are becoming a routine South African event. They are also a symbol of the country’s reality. The private schools were created by and for white people – this is ref...
·almost 3 years ago
Turkey is heading toward a presidential runoff election on May 28, 2023, after no candidate won more than half the votes in the first round – the barrier needed to be declared an outright winner.
·12 months ago
President George W. Bush and his administration put forward a variety of reasons to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
·about 1 year ago
In a social media post on March 18, 2023, former President Donald Trump announced that he would be arrested on March 21 on charges stemming from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg’s office is probing h...
·about 1 year ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, after 12 weeks of growing protest against his proposed judicial reforms, said he will order a temporary halt to the changes that aimed to rein in the power of Israel’s judiciary and grant vi...
·about 1 year ago
Nigeria’s registered voters, which the Independent National Electoral Commission has put at 93.5 million, are expected to come out in their numbers in what will be Africa’s biggest election this year.
·about 1 year ago
During midterms, US voters elect 435 members of the House of Representatives for a two-year term and one-third of the senators, the 100-member upper house, who serve for six years
·over 1 year ago
Nigerians go to the polls on 25 February to elect a new president, vice-president, 109 members of the Senate and 360 members of the Federal House of Representatives. Eighteen political parties have presented candidates for the various of...
·about 1 year ago
The judicial overhaul plan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, introduced in January, has thrown the country into its most severe domestic crisis since 1973. That crisis intensified on March 26, when Netanyahu fire...
·about 1 year ago
Joe Biden, “together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.” This is what Donald Trump said to his supporters hours after pleading not guilty in federal court in June 2023 to his mish...
·10 months ago
If public administration education is designed and delivered poorly, it sets a course for the systematic destruction of state capability. In many ways, this is what’s happening in South Africa.
·6 months ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa has in accordance with section 49(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, read with section 17 of the Electoral act of 1998, determined 29 May 2024, as the date for the 2024 General National and ...
·2 months ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa has on behalf of the government and people of South Africa congratulated President-elect Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on his election as the President of the Republic of Senegal.
·28 days ago
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has forgiven the revolutionary regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigert for their sins of removing democratically elected proxies of France from power.
·about 1 month ago
More than in previous elections, South Africa’s Electoral Commission (IEC) will be tested to the hilt in this year’s national and provincial elections on 29 May 2024.
·29 days ago
The recent cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, 27 March 2024, addressed a range of critical matters concerning international relations, economic developments, governance, safety, security, and the upcoming commemoration of 30 years of fre...
·28 days ago
Youth are meant to be a generation enjoying a democratic dividend and contributing to a demographic dividend. Neither appears true. In terms of how much potential South Africa has squandered, they represent an entire generation of opport...
·about 4 hours ago