by Sheilan Clarke | 12 Apr 2019 | Electoral systems
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...
by Lelethu Masangwana | 22 Mar 2019 | Electoral systems
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...
by Sheilan Clarke | 10 Aug 2018 | Funding, Party finance, Political Parties
Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa We write to you as civil society organisations working in the interest of upholding democracy and improving our political system through greater transparency. The gap in political party financial disclosure and monitoring regulation in...