by Lelethu Masangwana | 7 June 2019 | Electoral systems, General, Political Parties | 0 Comments

A number of young people have assumed roles as Members of Parliament and Members of the Provincial Legislatures after the elections. Most of these young politicians were leading activists in the #FeesMustFall protests between 2015 and 2016 and continue to advocate for...

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...