The Governance Report
Botswana’s backsliding: A story of governance demiseÂ
Trust is difficult to build and easy to destroy. The same is true of democracy and good governance. Botswana has, relatively speaking, been a shining light of democracy on the continent. Until now,...
Media statement on the chaos and looting in South Africa
14 JULY 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  South Africa is in a perfect storm and the focus has to stay on governance Scenes of chaos and orchestrated looting, concentrated in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, have rocked South Africa heavily over the last...
Chris Maroleng interviews Zambia’s new UNIP president, Bishop Trevor Mwamba
Ahead of Zambia's 12 August elections, GGA's Chris Maroleng interviews the new president of the late Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (UNIP), Bishop Trevor Mwamba, asking him, 'will the coming elections be free and fair?' Click...
Botswana’s backsliding: A story of governance demiseÂ
Botswana’s backsliding: A story of governance demiseÂ
Media statement on the chaos and looting in South Africa
14 JULY 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  South Africa is in a perfect storm and the focus has to stay on governance Scenes of chaos and orchestrated looting, concentrated in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, have rocked South Africa heavily over the last...
Chris Maroleng interviews Zambia’s new UNIP president, Bishop Trevor Mwamba
Ahead of Zambia's 12 August elections, GGA's Chris Maroleng interviews the new president of the late Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (UNIP), Bishop Trevor Mwamba, asking him, 'will the coming elections be free and fair?' Click...
Expert Analysis
Countering violent extremism and conflict contagion: Regional Implications of Mozambican Insecurity
Across Africa today, both the scale and complexity of state fragility is unprecedented as countries grapple with multiple overlapping challenges,...
The Zimbabwe Crisis: from revolt to reform
In recent months, Good Governance Africa (GGA) has provided extensive analytical coverage of the escalating political and economic crisis unfolding...
From Willowgate to Covidgate: Three decades of malfeasance in Zimbabwe
The Robert Mugabe-led government’s response to the Willowgate scandal in Zimbabwe will go down in history as a missed opportunity for setting a...
C-19: In South Africa, rule of law questioned
The tenth of April 2020 was a warm autumn day, and Collins Khosa, 40, was sitting in his yard at his home in the Far East Bank of Alexandra township in northern Johannesburg, enjoying a glass of beer. But then South African National Defence Force members tasked with enforcing the lockdown found him.
Governance implications of the Malawi election June 2020 rerun
Late on Saturday 27 June, 2020, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Chairperson, Justice Chifundo Kachale, formally announced the election...
COVID-19: A pandemic unfavourable to journalists
The COVID-19 pandemic came with its own set of rules and regulations, which anyone who chose to disobey, did at their own risk. Many of these rules infringe on rights, across the board.
Ethiopia faces a ‘perfect storm’
A few months ago, security agents intercepted five of Ethiopia’s opposition figures at Addis Ababa airport and took them to a place where individuals contracting the coronavirus were isolated and treated.
Covid-19
Here you’ll find up-to-date Covid-19 stats provided by the WHO COVID-19 DASHBOARD and in-depth reporting on the governance around Covid-19
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