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Heidi Brooks

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Senior Researcher and Associate, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the 2022 state of nation address to a joint sitting of Parliament. Coalitions could soon be a feature of national government. Jaco Marais/Pool Images/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

November 6, 2022

A stable national coalition government in South Africa? Possible, but only if elites put country’s interests first

Heidi Brooks, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection

Stable coalitions will depend on strong democratic values being embedded among political elites.

The post-apartheid system of participatory democracy is generally considered to have failed. EPA-EFE/Yeshiel Panchia

July 13, 2020

The ANC insists it’s still a political vanguard: this is what ails democracy in South Africa

Heidi Brooks, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection

The challenge for the deepening of South Africa’s democracy is that the very existence of vanguardism prevents the realisation of empowered citizens.

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