Young and Powerful: Who are the new young members of Parliament?
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...
Khayelitsha residents on elections, service delivery and more
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...
The IEC: 25 Years Later
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...
Election promises: How strong is the political will to keep them?
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...
Intra-party Democracy: How democratic are political parties?
Political parties are reluctant to share information or liaise on how they operate internally. In a democratic country such as South Africa, it is important that this information be made available to the public as evidence that parties are in fact democratic within...
How does Eshowe experience our democracy ahead of the elections?
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...