OP-ED: Women must lead, the rest will follow
Written by Amanda April for My Vote Counts Equal representation lies at the very heart of democracy. Research suggests that a society becomes more secure and economically prosperous as gender equality improves, together with public trust and political stability. So...
OPINION: Rape – whose problem is it anyway?
We have reached another Women's Month and still, rape and sexual offences are at alarming levels in the country and have been so for the past decade. The regulations relating to Sexual Offences Courts (SOC) await the go-ahead from Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. These...
A New Dawn
In President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address, he addressed the nation on his plans to bring about his “New Dawn”. Can we have a “New Dawn” without the implementation of the Political Party Funding Act, as South Africans remain in the dark of who funds...
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...