As South Africa marks 66 years since the Sharpeville massacre and reflects on 32 years of democracy, an important question ...

The HSRC has made public findings of its latest voter participation survey, which measures public confidence in democracy.

The theme for the 2026 National Freedom Day is Freedom and the Rule of Law: Thirty Years of Democratic Citizenship. The Free State Province has been confirmed as the host, with the event set to take ...

The decline in voter turnout has serious implications for the health of South Africa’s democracy,' writes Nontando ...

Some analyses suggest South Africa’s human rights framework is “normatively robust but substantively fragile”, marked by a ...

In South Africa, the right to vote was not simply a constitutional guarantee but a hard-won affirmation that disabled people are citizens whose voices matter. For decades, disabled communities were ...

The West is once again mobilizing to strengthen African democracy. The Ford, MacArthur, and Open Society foundations recently launched a $20 million West Africa Democracy Fund, a seemingly ...

The World Movement for Democracy summit in South Africa has come under fire because of its US funding, even as organisers invited critics to use the platform to voice their dissent. The Desmond and ...

Fikile Mbalula urges South Africans to unite for democracy at a historic march honouring the Sharpeville Massacre and ...

For this outsider, the parliamentary and judicial response to the Zuma administration’s failure to detain Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and turn him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

Distributed in the United States by Axis Gallery, and sondela. sondela is a project of the South Africa Development Fund, Inc. Summary A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa articulates the ...