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A woman positions a burning tyre as community members protest against the rise of crime in the area in Diepsloot, South Africa, on 6 April 2022. Picture: GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP

Democracy

More young people are losing their faith in democracy, research claims

By Qama Qukula

Professor Joleen Steyn Kotze, a senior research specialist at the HSRC, says people are becoming disillusioned with democracy as a political system rather than...

  • The South African flag. Picture: Eyewitness News

    Are we free? SA youth question Freedom Day celebration

    As South Africa commemorates 28 years since the country's first democratic elections, many citizens question whether it is a day to celebrate as many do not feel free.

    22 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

    Ramaphosa: South Africans must guard against efforts to diminish democracy

    President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africans needed to protect the Constitution, the democratic state and electoral process from those seeking to weaken democracy and hard-won freedom.

    122 days ago
  • An Austrian police officer checks a driver's digital vaccination certificate on a smartphone during a traffic control in Graz, Austria, on 15 November 2021, during the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Picture: Erwin Scheriau/AFP

    Health first, freedom second? How COVID is changing democracies

    At the start of the pandemic, governments used sweeping lockdowns and curfews to try to contain the virus. But in the past year, most countries began refining their strategies, rolling out digital passes allowing people to show they are vaccinated.

    133 days ago
  • Damaged windows at the Constitutional Court on 5 January 2022. Picture: Nhlanhla Mabaso/Eyewitness News

    Attack on ConCourt is an attack on SA’s democracy - Lamola

    The 36-year-old suspect destroyed windows and doors at the court on Wednesday using a hammer.

    133 days ago
  • FILE: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Picture: tutu.org.za

    The beacon of democracy: Reflecting on the teachings of Desmond Tutu

    His tireless work to create a democratic and just society without racial division in South Africa has made Archbishop Desmond Tutu a beacon for human rights who never shied away from speaking up for the oppressed.

    142 days ago
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    ANALYSIS: How to narrow the big divide between black and white farmers in SA

    At the dawn of democracy, few probably thought that nearly three decades on, South Africa would still be battling with the phenomenon of “two agricultures”.

    168 days ago
  • US Capitol Police respond to a report of an explosive device in a pickup truck near the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill on August 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The area around the building has been evacuated. Picture: Win Mcnamee / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP

    US joins annual list of 'backsliding' democracies

    Globally, more than one in four people live in a backsliding democracy, a proportion that rises to more than two in three with the addition of authoritarian or 'hybrid' regimes, according to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

    178 days ago
  • FILE: FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

    'He played a key role in ushering in democracy': Ramaphosa remembers De Klerk

    President Cyril Ramaphosa called upon South Africans to pay condolences because the late FW De Klerk was "a human being".

    188 days ago
  • South Africa's last apartheid president FW De Klerk. Picture: Twitter/ @FWdeKlerkFoun.

    'He took the steps to change South Africa' - political parties mourn FW de Klerk

    The ANC, UDM, FF+, GOOD and the DA have sent their condolences to the De Klerk family.

    188 days ago
  • A voter casts his vote at the Freeway Park voting station in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni on 1 November 2021. Picture: Xandeleigh Makhaza Dookey/Eyewitness News

    Global voter turnout has been in decline since the 1960s. Here's why

    The generational nature of the decrease in voter turnout suggests that it may continue to drop. But this is not an inevitability.

    197 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa at the National Teaching Awards in Kempton park on 6 October 2021. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    Ramaphosa wants values of democracy, dangers of corruption taught in school

    President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he wanted teachers to raise children to be good citizens.

    224 days ago
  • Police make people lie on their stomachs after finding them looting inside a store in Hillbrow. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/ Eyewitness News.

    HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Senzeni Na? What have we done, and when will we be free?

    Four decades after the popularity of the song reached its height, Haji Mohamed Dawjee asks what have we done? Why do we continue doing it? And when will we be free?

    307 days ago
  • People outside Chris Hani Crossing Mall in Vosloorus, waiting for police to leave the area after looting on 14 July 2021. South Africa has been battling looting and riots since Saturday. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    ANGELO FICK: Beyond the dealership of leadership

    If we were more civic-minded, we would be able to carry out our responsibilities and hold leaders to account better, writes Angelo Fick.

    308 days ago
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    MAHLATSE MAHLASE: Defending media freedom in SA is a continuous battle

    Despite the fact that the media’s rights are enshrined in our Constitution, we have learnt in the 27-year journey of our democracy that even when guaranteed, freedom still needs defenders, says Sanef’s Mahlatse Mahlase.

    380 days ago
  • Ramaphosa on Freedom Day: The promise of 1994 is yet to be fulfilled for many

    President Cyril Ramaphosa led the 2021 National Freedom Day celebrations on 27 April 2021, in Botshabelo, Free State Province.

    386 days ago
  • The crowd who gathered to support former President Jacob Zuma is seen reflected in his glasses as he waits to speak after appearing on corruption charges at the Durban High Court on 6 April 2018. Picture: Ihsaan Haffejee/Eyewitness News.

    JUDITH FEBRUARY: How did South Africa lose its way so badly?

    Now is a definitive time to be seeking to draw lessons from the past and to think about a future South Africa shaped by citizens who demand accountability from those in power, writes Judith February.

    404 days ago
  • This photo taken on 7 December 1991 shows newly elected secretary general of South African Communist Party (SACP) Chris Hani speaking at a press conference. Picture: AFP.

    KHAYA XABA: 28 years after Chris Hani’s assassination, how is SA faring?

    It’s important to undertake a frank assessment of some of the most pressing South African issues that our beloved Cde Chris Thembisile Hani fought for, writes Khaya Xaba.

    405 days ago
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