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• Whose Interests drive the Government and Politicians in Tanzania?
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  27 Out 2009By Mvuyisi April As Tanzania approaches its national elections in a years’ time, it is worth looking back at what holds our democracy so that ...

• People as agents of their own development
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  25 Ago 2009By Samantha Fleming Discuss this on our blog. “Real change can only be achieved through challenging dominant political and economic interests.”   For several years, ...

• Election Alert No 3, April 2009
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  21 Abr 2009The Election Monitoring Network (EMN) is a network of independent civil society organisations that deploys a team of 500 monitors nationwide to keep a look-out ...

• Petrol bombs and witch hunts
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  20 Abr 2009By: Christi van der Westhuizen All is not well in South Africa's heartland, the Free State. The golden plains of the province have become the ...

• Intimidation of voters goes beyond violence
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  20 Abr 2009By Christi van der Westhuizen The 2009 election has elicited more interest from pundits than the previous two polls because of its promise of greater ...

• Die Vrystaatse politieke toneel
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  17 Abr 2009Die Vrystaatse politieke toneel mag steeds ANC-gedomineer wees, maar die verskyning van Cope het die politieke temperatuur ernstig opgestoot in 'n paar gebiede, met intimidasie ...

• Free State election campaigns include petrol bombs and witch hunts
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  17 Abr 2009By Christi van der Westhuizen All is not well in South Africa’s heartland, the Free State.  The golden plains of the province have become the ...

• Dienslewering, onverdraagsaamheid en verkiesingskonflik
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  15 Abr 2009Deur Christi van der Westhuizen Dienslewering, of die gebrek daaraan, word as ‘n belangrike faktor in hierdie verkiesing beskou. Soos met die vorige verkiesing, probeer gemeenskappe ...

• Khayelitsha and Nyanga residents uneasy before elections
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  15 Abr 2009By Christi van der Westhuizen Distrust and disillusion. These are the dominant themes that emerge from conversations about the election with the residents of Cape ...

• Bewerings oor intimidasie en misbruik van staatshulp versteur rustige Noord-Kaap
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  15 Abr 2009Deur Christi van der Westhuizen Die nimmereindigende vlaktes van die Noord-Kaap kan rustig voorkom, maar dit is bedrieglik. Die politieke temperature loop plek-plek hoog in ...

• The IEC and the thorny issue of political party membership in the Northern Cape
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  15 Abr 2009By Christi van der Westhuizen It’s said that walls don’t speak but the wall of a political party’s constituency office can tell a whole story. ...

• Election Alert No 2, March 2009
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  30 Mar 2009The Election Monitoring Network (EMN) is a network of independent civil society organisations that deploys a team of 500 monitors nationwide to keep a look-out ...

• Election Monitoring Network - Brief 1
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  25 Mar 2009In May 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections. Before 1994, the majority of South Africans were denied the right to vote for the ...

• Everyday issues 'now on election agenda'
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  18 Mar 2009By: Andisiwe Makinana (Political Writer) The hype and anxiety over next month's elections has seen a rise in everyday issues receiving political treatment and becoming ...

• Contemplating Youth Day 2008
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  12 Jun 2008This piece is a thoughtful analysis of what 1976 means to a young white South African, whose eyes were opened to a different way of ...

• Idasa endorses Support for Refugees from Western Cape NGOs
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  27 Mai 2008Do you want to help?  Click on this link for information about how to help  - TAC Help Refugees  The City of Cape Town has ...

• Idasa supports advocacy programmes in KZN and Limpopo
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  03 Out 2007Idasa has been contracted by the Civil Society Advocacy Programme (CSAP) to support advocacy programmes in ten communities in KwaZulu/Natal and Limpopo provinces, in a ...

• Building Citizen Leadership in Angola
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  29 Mai 2007Idasa is currently working in Angola with Norwegian Church Aid and the Angolan Council of Churches, to develop leadership capacity amongst citizens.  This work has ...

• Building the Capacity of Communities for Development in Rural KZN
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  30 Jun 2006By Teddy Nemeroff, Bonginkosi Mhlanga, and Mvuyisi April A man goes to sow seeds in a field. He throws seeds up and down the field ...

• Probing the protest and understanding service delivery
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  30 Nov 2005By Teddy Nemeroff   There have been housing protests in the Western Cape, councillors driven from public meetings in the Free State by citizens angry ...

• Operation Hope for Troubled Zimbabwe
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  01 Set 2005By Jo Tyler   In August 2005, South African church leaders launched a major humanitarian relief initiative – dubbed “Operation Hope for Zimbabwe” – to ...

• Constructing Ourselves, Constructing Others - the challenge of reconciliation in SA
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  31 Ago 2005The Reconciliation Initiative (a partnership between Idasa and the Gauteng Council of Churches (GCC)) launched in May 2004 and now has six regional dialogues at ...

• Civil Society Participation in Local Governance
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  20 Set 2004By Nico Bezuidenhout and Benjy Mautjane   This article was first published by CARE-SA-Lesotho   The challenges Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in South Africa have ...

• What is Sustained Dialogue?
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  30 Mai 2004Sustained Dialogue (SD) is a systematic, open-ended process for transforming conflictual  relationships within communities over time. SD brings together groups of concerned citizens and community ...

• The Role of NGOs in the Parliamentary Process – Child Justice
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  01 Mar 2002As the Child Justice Bill comes to Parliament, it is important to understand the parliamentary process of passing legislation, and also the crucial role that ...