by Sheilan Clarke | 12 April 2019 | Electoral systems | 0 Comments

  This is the time for elaborate and well-timed photo-ops. We will be inundated with public engagements often in areas where service delivery protests are most publicised. With such an important elections just days away, political parties are scrambling to try and...

by Sheilan Clarke | 4 April 2019 | Intra-Party Democracy, Political Parties | 0 Comments

  SAVE THE DATE - 24 April   Please join My Vote Counts for the launch of our new campaign: "Intra-party democracy: How Democratic are You?" As part of My Vote Counts' (MVC) mission to enhance and promote accountability, transparency and inclusivity in South Africa's...

by Lelethu Masangwana | 22 March 2019 | Electoral systems | 0 Comments

25 years ago, South Africa held its first democratic elections. Democracy meant power to the people and the first step to exercising that power was voting in free and fair elections – a right that the majority of South Africans had been excluded from participating in...