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@Liberty - Electoral Reform in South Africa: The Time Has Come

29 September 2020 - This report examines the question of electoral reform in South Africa. It provides an overview of the recent debate around electoral reform ...

@Liberty - How to fix the future

13 May 2014 - In the run-up to the election on 7th May many commentators suggested that some of the interventionist legislation recently enacted or promised by ...

@Liberty - Protest action in South Africa: Threat, or opportunity for reform?

18 February 2014 - Violent anti-government protest action in South Africa has increased dramatically in recent months. So much so that business, diplomatic, ...

@Liberty - Ramaphosa and the Strange Workings of ANC Democracy

30 January 2018 - The report, written by distinguished political analyst, R W Johnson, provides an “unrivalled picture of the country’s mood on the cusp of a ...

@Liberty - Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution: An Oxford conference on ‘‘20 Years of South African Democracy’’

2 June 2014 - Political debate about South Africa is still hobbled by all manner of constraints that you simply don’t meet in discussions on contemporary ...

A new messiah to fill the void in South Africa's psyche

Bronwyn Williams explores the deep-seated desire within South Africa for visionary leadership and the implications of its current leadership vacuum.

A Question of Fate: An ANC-EFF coalition in 2024?

The prospect of the ANC losing its majority has caused a riot of speculation about what a post-election government might look like. Will the ANC be able to ...

A strategic report by the Centre for Risk Analysis at the IRR on how the leadership race in the African National Congress (ANC) is likely to conclude and what ...

Executive Chaos - Discontinuity in the National Executive: 2009-2018

18 October 2018 - The scale of South Africa’s discontinuity in executive leadership is undoubtedly one of the biggest contributing factors to the ANC’s failure ...