by Lelethu Masangwana | 7 May 2019 | Electoral systems, General | 0 Comments

  On Tuesday the 30th of April, MVC in partnership with the  Democracy Development Program and Social Justice Coalition held a community-focused discussion at the Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha. About 50 participants mostly from informal settlements joined us in a...

by Farai Savanhu | 7 May 2019 | Electoral systems, General | 0 Comments

South Africa was on the brink of change in the 1990s. Five decades of apartheid, a system of institutionalised racial segregation, was finally coming to an end. The release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners had been ordered by President F.W de Klerk in...

by Lelethu Masangwana | 26 April 2019 | Electoral systems, General | 0 Comments

  Every five years, politicians fill the streets in their numbers making promises to better the lives of South Africans. Voters consequently take to their respective voting stations in the hope that these promises will indeed be fulfilled and their lives will improve...