NPC – new framework for policy and delivery in SA

Imagine a common vision for development across the country?  Perhaps this could be the start.  Trevor Manuel (Minister in the Presidency for National Planning) released the Green Paper on national strategic planning in early September, which aims to provide a co-ordinated, coherent plan for government delivery. See more analysis below.
By Justin Sylvester

Since President Jacob Zuma [...]

What South Africa does the world need?

Today, it is commonplace to say there is a crisis in world governance. Governments and international institutions seem limited in their power to contain the deterioration of citizen’s lives. Cultural diversity offers a fundamental starting point for global communication, and in order to revisit notions of world governance in fresh ways, political and religious communities [...]

Zuma and His Cabinet

- By Judith February -  South Africans’ capacity for magnanimity has been well-displayed these past weeks. Jacob Zuma is our President. Despite the cloud of corruption which will continue to hang over his head despite occupying the highest office, we, the people, have a responsibility not only to demand accountability but to put our shoulders [...]

Zuma and his cabinet

-By Judith February – South Africans’ capacity for magnanimity has been well-displayed these past weeks. Jacob Zuma is our President. Despite the cloud of corruption which will continue to hang over his head despite occupying the highest office, we, the people, have a responsibility not only to demand accountability but to put our shoulders to [...]

What did they spend? Party Funding and Campaigns in SA …

By: Judith February
With the elections over and the African National Congress celebrating its victory, it is clear that, along with the people, the money has also spoken.
Estimates put the ANC’s election spending at between R200million and R400m. No one can be sure of the actual amount, given the lack of transparency in the funding of [...]

Archbishop Calls for Calm During Elections

The Election Monitoring Network released a statement to the press today – see the video of the Archbishop delivering the statement here – http://www.zoopy.com/idasa
More at www.electionmonitoringnetwork.org

Opposition Politics – Turnout is Key

This brief discusses the landscape of opposition politics and explains some of the issues that may affect the opposition’s performance in election 2009, with regards to possible shifts of electoral support to the opposition.
Read more about the socio-economic landscape and disaffected voters, fragmentation within the opposition, race and class, the style of opposition politics that [...]

The State of SA’s Democratic Institutions

- By Shameela Seedat -
Media coverage leading up to next month’s national elections would leave many of us convinced of a dramatic plunge over the past few years in the level of public trust in South African democratic institutions.
Several significant events have led to such dwindling enthusiasm. These events include, to mention a few, [...]

Are food parcels being abused to manipulate voters?

By Christi van der Westhuizen
www.electionmonitoringnetwork.org
‘‘I‘m going to make sure that if you advertise (sic) an article about my name on the newspaper I will deal with you… If you go to the paper with that thing you’re going to deal with the consequences thereafter… I am not threatening you, you are threatening yourself. You cannot [...]

Know Your Decision Makers – Zimbabwe

To know your ministers, is to know your powerful decision makers.  Understand more about the dynamics in the Zimbabwean government in the profiles of Ministers.  See these on the Idasa website here; and the Zimbabwean Times site here.

Source – Zimbabwe Times