The 2024 national and provincial South African elections will likely prove the most important elections since the seminal 1994 elections. The country faces mounting socio-economic challenges including high...
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Enhancing youth engagement and voter participation in South Africa’s 2024 polls
As South Africa commemorates Youth Day and prepares for the 2024 general elections, it is important to reflect on past elections and identify strategies to bolster voter participation in the forthcoming polls. A...
Success of SA’s coalition future hinges on formalised agreements
In late May, the Auditor-General (AG) of South Africa identified coalition instability as having a concerning impact on financial governance, saying: “The instability in councils has also been a major feature in terms...
SONA 2022 – Some progress, lots of problems
Good Governance Africa (GGA) has studied the president’s SONA 2022 speech from last night. The speech includes some laudable attempts at addressing the ANC’s lamentable record in governance over the past year and in...
Of super-coalitions and national interests: That which binds the ANC and the DA
South Africa needs a grand coalition between its leading parties South Africans recently voted in the fifth round of local elections of the democratic era, and the results have been widely seen as a tectonic shift in...
Getting back the elusive youth vote
There are many contestations over the definition and constitution of ‘youth’. In South Africa, according to the recent National Youth Policy, those within the age group of 15-34 make up more than a third (34.7%) of the...
