CategoriesChad News and ViewsChad’s political landscape is heating up as the country prepares for legislative, provincial, and municipal elections set for December 29, 2024. While the Agence Nationale de Gestion des Election (ANGE) is moving forward with preparations, several opposition parties, including Les Transformateurs and those grouped under the Groupe de Concertation des Acteurs Politiques (GCAP), are raising […]
CategoriesChad News and ViewsAs the December 2024 legislatives, provincial and communal elections approach in Chad, and while the main opposition parties remain hesitant to engage in the electoral battle, citing unfavorable weather conditions and calling for a postponement, another battle is taking shape: the smaller political parties, which had previously aligned with the ruling Mouvement Patriotique du Salut […]
CategoriesChadThe National Election Management Agency (ANGE) is at the forefront of embarking the Republic of Chad on a historic political journey, with three major elections scheduled. This event will mark the simultaneous holding of legislative, provincial, and municipal elections, giving citizens the opportunity to vote for their representatives at all levels in a single day. […]
CategoriesChadChad’s electoral commission, the Agence Nationale de Gestion des Élections (ANGE) made significant strides towards reinforcing democratic processes through targeted civic and electoral education. The workshop held on August 29-30, 2024, with technical support from the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA), served as a key moment in strengthening the capacities of 26 […]
CategoriesSouth AfricaSouth Africa’s 2024 national and provincial elections saw the African National Congress (ANC) obtain 40% of the vote, and lose its once unassailable majority. No party won a sufficient majority to be able to form a government. This necessitated the formation of a coalition government. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the 2024 National and Provincial Election […]
CategoriesElections News and Views South AfricaJustifiably, in the lead up to electoral processes, media coverage tends to focus on providing coverage to political parties and the issues at stake in the elections and in society – fairly, accurately, comprehensively, and equitably. While useful, focusing only on these issues, ignores the lived reality of people in society, and tends to ignore […]
CategoriesSouth AfricaDespondency and the lack of trustLeading in to the 2024 elections, the majority of South Africans felt – and were feeling for some time – that, on balance, the country was heading in the wrong direction – in the direction opposite to the democratic and inclusive society that the South African Constitution articulates as the […]
CategoriesSouth Africa NigerThe quality of the media coverage of a societies’ elections is measured not simply by how extensively, accurately and fairly political parties and contestants are covered, but by whether the media exposes voters to the kind of information voters need to know and also whether the media prioritises and reflects voters and citizen concerns. A […]
CategoriesSouth AfricaThe 2024 South African National and Provincial elections on 29 May were held under a slightly revised electoral system with amended electoral laws – the most significant of which was the invalidation of the original Electoral Act by the Constitutional Court in 2020. The change in system and attendant amended laws now allow for independent […]
CategoriesNews and Views South AfricaSouth Africa is definitively, an electoral democracy. The 2024 elections will be South Africa’s 7th National election since the 1990 transition. Its 5th set of democratic municipal elections was held in 2021. South Africa is also robust in the practices of democracy as a set of social norms – essential liberties are widely used, fundamental […]
