Despite the customary shambolic start, with registrations and opening speeches running many hours behind schedule, the ANC’s 55th National Conference completed its main task – the election of a national leadership core – surprisingly smoothly and without obvious rancour. Democracy Digest 8 – The ANCs National Conference by Mike Pothier 2
In recent weeks, as load-shedding has intensified, there has been a growing narrative seeking to blame Eskom, and specifically its management, for the crisis. At the governing party’s National Executive Committee meeting last Friday, some members argued that the company’s Chief Executive, Andre de Ruyter, should be dismissed; as a lawyer, rather than an engineer, […]
Submission – Decriminalisation of Sex Work
Submission – Decriminalisation of Sex Work
2022 has been the year during which most of the world emerged from the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. People crept out of their homes. Some went back to their offices and other places of employment, some continued to work at home, while others had no work to which to return. The masks came […]
This year the US State Department issued the 22nd edition of the Trafficking in Persons Report. It is once again a comprehensive analysis of the scourge of human trafficking and the attempts of various countries, 188 in all, to combat it. BP 560 – The 2022 Report on Trafficking in Persons by Peter-John Pearson
Government started implementing Phase 1 of the National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) in March 2022. In October this year it gazetted Phase 2 of the NIP for public comment. While Phase 1 focuses on the critical network infrastructure sectors of energy, freight transport, water and digital communications, Phase 2 will expand the focus to include a […]
South Africa’s first democratic national and pro- vincial elections in 1994 were held under a pure proportional representation system in terms of which political parties were awarded seats in direct proportion to the share of the vote they managed to secure. This was regarded as the only fair and reliable way of gauging the strength […]
When Statistics South Africa conducted its National Household Travel Survey in 2013,1 more than 10% of Western Cape households surveyed reported using trains – in 2020 this dropped to just 3.1%. In 2013, 13% of workers used trains as their main mode of transport, but in 2020 that percentage dropped to less than 2%. The […]
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual campaign that begins on 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and concludes on 10th December, which is International Human Rights Day. It focuses on raising awareness about the devastating impact that gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) has on women and […]
