southern AfricaSADCcooperationsecuritydemocracySADC has a poor record in advancing peace and security in Southern Africa. Many identify poor policy frameworks and weak technical capacities as the major obstacles. Laurie Nathan goes beyond these easy explanations in his important new book ...
In 1994, apartheid ended and the African National Congress (ANC) won South Africa's first ever democratic elections, promising "Electricity for All" as part of itsReconstruction and Development Program. Back then only 36% of all South Africans had electricity in their homes. The development progr...
The upcoming 29 May general elections will be the most tightly contested polls that South Africa has seen since the advent of democracy in 1994. While the ruling African National Congress (ANC) – which has been in power since 1994 – will remain in government, the elections are also lik...
This chapter tracks 25 years of democracy, starting with Mandela’s election to president in 1994 and ending with Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency in 2019. Along the way, South Africa suffering an AIDS pandemic, a large-scale influence operation by a Britis
Day at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, on April 27, 2024. Freedom Day, which is celebrated on April 27 each year, is designed to commemorate the first democratic elections held in South Africa on April 27, 1994, when anyone could vote regardless of race. (Xinhua/Zhang ...
According to the Zambian leader, South Africa had set a good example to other countries in the southern African region in the conduct of elections. The Zambian leader however expressed happiness that most of the elections held recently in the region have been peaceful and successful, according to...
Electoral workers prepare to open the voting station as voters line up to cast their ballot for general elections in Alexandra, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 29, 2024.Themba Hadebe / AP The ANC has also been blamed — and apparently punished by voters — for a failure in...
Parliamentary elections are expected in early 2009. On his first day as president, Motlanthe acted to move beyond Mbeki's resistance to using modern and effective methods, such as antirretroviral medicines, to tackle its AIDS crisis by replacing South Africa's health minister, Manto Tshabalala-...
Freedom Day is the commemoration of the first democratic elections held in South Africa on 27 April 1994. These were the first post-apartheid national elections to be held in South Africa where anyone could vote regardless of race. On the first commemoration of the holiday, Nelson Mandela whose...
which was repealed beginning in 1989. An interim constitution ending white rule was adopted in 1993, and the first multiracial elections were held in 1994. Pretoria is the administrative capital; Cape Town, the legislative capital; and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital. Johannesburg is the largest...