Resources

• 2012 South African Budget Guide and Dictionary
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  14 May 2012The purpose of the 2012 South African Budget Guide and Dictionary is to provide an accurate description of the South African budget system so as ...

• Idasa Democracy Index: Namibia Report
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  03 May 2012Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘Unfinished Business: democracy in Namibia.' It provides an important analysis of the status of Namibia’s democracy based on ...

• Idasa Democracy Index: Botswana Report
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  02 May 2012Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘A Fine Balance: Assessing the Quality of Governance in Botswana’. It provides an important analysis of the ...

• Idasa Invitation: Namibia & Botswana Democracy Index launch
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  23 Apr 2012Idasa launches its Democracy Index for Namibia and Botswana on 25 and 26 April 2012. The Namibia launch will be held on the 25th in ...

• Letter to Public Protector of South Africa
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  21 Nov 2011Read a letter by Idasa, to Public Protector of South Africa, Adv TM Madonsela regarding the Possible Abuse of State Resources by Mr Mac Maharaj, ...

• Idasa Statement on the Death of Kader Asmal
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  23 Jun 2011Idasa is saddened by the passing of Professor Kader Asmal and wishes to extend condolences to his family and friends. He was not, by any ...

• Idasa questions judgement of Director of Public prosecution in arms deal
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  19 Jun 2011African democracy institute Idasa is questioning the judgement of former national director of public prosecutions, Menzi Simelane, who decided not to investigate Fana Hlongwane, an ...

• Now it’s time to hold new councillors to their promises
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  10 Jun 2011Now that the elections have come and gone, citizens throughout the country have a responsibility to make local government work for them. This can be ...

• POI Bill being rammed through system
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  30 May 2011May 27 2011 at 11:58am By Gary Pienaar and Sithembile Mbete The ad hoc committee on the Protection of Information Bill (the “Secrecy Bill”) entered ...

• Toilets a fitting symbol for SA local govt election?
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  15 May 2011Are voters tired of hearing politicians talking sh*t? Judith February of Idasa’s Political Information and Monitoring Service says candidates musn’t think that because people are ...

• Idasa concerns over vote buying
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  06 May 2011Democracy institute Idasa has expressed concern over vote buying and the improper use of state resources to influence voters in the upcoming local government election.Idasa’s ...

• SA needs anti-corruption agency
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  01 May 2011Idasa’s Gary Pienaar says SA is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Corruption and the AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption – but ...

• Idasa says its time National Assembly cracks the whip on truancy
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  14 Apr 2011In a report in Business Day Idasa’s Nonhlanhla Chanza reminded us of the disruption absent MPs bring to the work of the National Assembly and ...

• Investigate Shiceka – Idasa calls on Public Protector
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  14 Apr 2011African democracy institute Idasa has sent an urgent letter to South Africa’s Public Protector, Advocate Thulisile Madonsela, calling on her to investigate Minister Sicelo Shiceka ...

• Idasa warns voter dissatisfaction will be a factor in upcoming poll
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  12 Apr 2011A political researcher at African democracy institute Idasa, Justin Sylvester, has said voters are struggling to find new political homes, “and because of levels of ...

• Ruling puts democracy back on track
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  27 Mar 2011By Judith February We live in a constitutional democracy. The Constitutional Court reminded us of that last week when it handed down what is without ...

• Change: more than law
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  13 Mar 2011We need to stop seeing equity as a simple change in demographics, and start creating a transformed SA for ourselves, writes Judith February The Big ...

• Does Zuma have that ‘vision thing’?
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  08 Feb 2011JUDITH FEBRUARY WHEN President Jacob Zuma delivered his state of the nation address last year, it was his first in a year that, by late ...

• What will Zuma have to offer in his State of the Nation address?
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  08 Feb 2011Is it going to be a confident and emboldened President Jacob Zuma at the podium in the National Assembly tomorrow for the State of the ...

• Sparks set to fly in Parliament this year
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  23 Jan 2011PARLIAMENT'S programme for 2011 reflects a steep workload weighed down with bills likely to spark controversy, says Idasa. Judith February, head of the democracy institute's ...

• Celebrating the world cup 2010
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  03 Jun 2010By: Judith February The World Cup will not be a panacea for this country’s ills. It will not ‘solve’ inequality nor will it bring an ...

• We owe a debt of gratitude to anti-apartheid risk-takers Duncan and Slabbert
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  27 May 2010By: Judith February Perhaps it is a reflection of the kind of society in which we live that the murder of a somewhat shady character ...

• Time to move away from the Malema monologue to dialogue on our future
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  07 Apr 2010By: Judith February A hip-hop star, allegedly high on cocaine ploughs into a group of schoolchildren in Soweto, killing 4 of them. The National Director ...

• Accountability, Democracy and Parliament
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  01 Apr 2010Idasa’s Political Monitoring and Information Service (PIMS) recently participated in a seminar in Parliament focused on exploring various methods of strengthening participatory democracy.  The three-day ...

• Benefits of democracy lost in the gap between constitution and complex reality
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  24 Mar 2010By: Judith February Along the mall in Washington DC stands the Korean war memorial. Alongside it, a marble wall with the powerful words, ‘Freedom is ...

• Zuma simply needs to play by the rules
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  10 Mar 2010By: Judith February WE SHOULD not have to be dragooned into setting high standards in public life. We should willingly seek maximum openness about what ...

• ANC must lay down the law on business interests or it will lose our confidence
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  24 Feb 2010By: Judith February According to the ANC, its Youth League president, Julius Malema has ‘broken no law’ by tendering for state contracts and in so ...

• Our response to what Zuma says matters more than the details of his speech
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  10 Feb 2010By: Judith February One can’t help feeling that Jacob Zuma’s presidency is fast losing its way. It’s hard to ignore the ever-increasing and worrying sense ...