Some political parties (DA, VF Plus) did not prioritise gender equality, hence they had no concrete plans to eliminate inequality. The EFF and ANC manifestos had the highest number of gender-related undertakings to address gender inequality, GBV, and rape.T...
This article uses the constitutions, policies, and manifestos of political parties active in the local government sphere to ascertain the role of political parties in (local) environmental governance. The aim of this inquiry is to investigate how political p...
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To what extent do political parties in South Africa politicise immigration? We systematically analyse the party manifestos of all major parties in post-apartheid South Africa, using two separate approaches of content analysis: coding all sentences about immigration individually, and coding the electoral...
An extensive qualitative analysis of all relevant material (i.e., party manifestos, newspaper advertisements, radio advertisements, pamphlets, posters and Websites) indicates that South African political parties placed much less emphasis on the 'image' of the party or its leader than happens in a ...
Partying along in silence violence against women and South African political party manifestos for the local government elections of May 2011The high incidence of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa, as well as its serious consequences, makes such violence a matter of central policy concern...
How do South African political parties frame immigration policies and concerns regarding the integration of immigrants? This essay examines this question by analyzing seventeen manifestos of five political parties, covering five national elections from 1994 to 2014, to understand how the parties conc...
Arising from this is an unfavourable political environment where ordinary people are twisted into blind voters. The environment compels them to demonstrate unwavering support for the ruling ANC. Factors such as lack of education; failure to...