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The obstacles the new government must confront to earn the confidence of the people are challenging.
In principle, political debates should showcase an aspiring leader’s vision. It’s a lofty goal given their current format in Kenya.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, enjoys a comfortable lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. But the Workers’ Party candidate faces many challenges.
The majority of planners believe that land is captured with impunity by powerful interest groups in Zambia and South Africa.
The MPLA is using all instruments at its disposal to hobble a new united opposition front ahead of the Angola election.
Labor has proposed a robust commission with strong powers, coupled with checks and balances to ensure it does not abuse its powers.
Although there is strength in diversity, members of ethnic groups in power distributing resources to members of their ethnic group at the expense of national growth entrench poverty in Africa.
Letizia Battaglia’s images of Mafia bloodshed made it impossible for people to turn a blind eye to the criminal outfit’s reign of terror.
Our experts rated the Coalition’s model as either very unsatisfactory or a fail. Most agreed Labor’s proposed model is much better, but said a lot more detail is needed.
Public trust and confidence in the police is a concern in many parts of the world. How can Nigeria get it right?
Ending violence against foreigners can only happen by first recognising – and addressing – the hazards of South Africa’s crumbling system of indirect rule.
Perceptions that South African police treat people disrespectfully, lack impartiality or transparency, and are prone to brutality
undermine public confidence in them.
A need for enhanced presidential power, inherited from the early days of post-Communist transition, ruined any chances of compromise between Ukraine and Russia years ago.
Most citizens feel that it is pointless to vote because it won’t change anything.
Parties must forego ideological rigidity and compromise for the common good, says Mpho Phalatse about making coalitions work.
Ukraine was becoming increasingly linked with the global economy. Russia’s invasion puts its progress at risk.
While social responsibility can help establish a culture founded on transparency and accountability, AI tools can assist companies in implementing these values within the organization.
A judicial commission has found that the Guptas orchestrated massive corruption and the capture of the South African state, with the help of their friend, former president Jacob Zuma.
Corruption must be made a high-risk enterprise so that when offenders are caught, the laws will be enforced
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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