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Finding the right balance between media freedom and limits remains one of the greatest challenges modern democracies face.

Constitutional mechanisms to enhance democracy should be preferred to trusting the illusion of a benevolent dictatorship.

With prospects for substantive policy reform and economic take-off dimming rapidly, along with President Ramaphosa’s claim to champion either, whatever positive legacy comes from his incumbency will likely hinge on his record regarding corruption.

Most Nigerians agree that elections are the best way to choose political leaders but ineffective in punishing failure, a new Afrobarometer study shows, as the country heads for polls at the end of February.

An overwhelming majority of Batswana agree women should have equal rights and that the government should do more to promote this, a new Afrobarometer survey reveals.



Four years into the presidency of Mokgweetsi Masisi in Botswana, a growing number of Batswana are beginning to see corruption in his office, a new report says.



The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has announced a three-year, 66 million Swedish Kronor grant (approximately US $6 million) in

The single biggest key to fighting corruption and stabilising our administration is changing the process by which top public servants are hired – and protecting them from political meddling. The coalition era will make this task even more urgent, writes Sarah Meny-Gibert.

South Africans are frustrated and fed up, but ditching democracy for a benevolent dictatorship is suicidal