Articles about African National Congress Anc
Diversity Exchange, Issue 23, December 2011
16 December 11
Regional relevance: Regional
Welcome to Issue 23 of the Diversity Exchange, the last for the year 2011! The buzz- word during November and parts of December has been COP 17. The global climate change conference ran from 28 November to 9 December. Researchers, activists, ministers youth, faith based organisations and journalists among other... [read more]
SA Protection of Information Bill gets the nod
13 December 11
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, the South Africa's (SA) African National Congress (ANC) party voted overwhelmingly for its Protection of Information Bill dubbed as Secrecy Bill by critics.
Despite numerous protests that compelled South African National Press Club (NPC) declaring 22 November "Black Tuesday", the ANC... [read more]
SADC countries back tracking on media freedom
16 November 11
While positive signals elsewhere in the continent show that governments are embracing principles of free access to information, Southern African Development Community (SADC) seem to be retrogressing. Namibia and South Africa, once beacons of media freedom in the region, are no longer conducive environments for the... [read more]
50/50 yes we must!
05 August 11
Regional relevance: Regional
The governance cluster of the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance has called on SADC governments to redouble their efforts to attain the target of gender parity in all areas of decision-making by 2015. [read more]
South Africa: GL calls for legislated quota for women's political participation
17 July 11
The 2011 local government elections witnessed a decline in women's representation at the very moment South Africa should be redoubling its efforts to achieve gender parity. This underscores the need for a legislated quota for women in national and local elections. This is the conclusion reached by Gender Links (GL),... [read more]
GL calls for legislated quota for women's political participation in SA following backsliding in local elections
05 July 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
The South African local elections on 18 May - the last before the regional deadline for gender parity in politics by 2015- are likely to witness a decline in women's representation. This underscores the importance of quotas for women in politics being legislated as opposed to being left to the whims of political... [read more]
Gender in the 2011 South African Local Government Elections
27 June 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
The 2011 local government elections that witnessed a decline in women's representation at the very moment that South Africa should be redoubling its efforts to achieve gender parity underscores the need for a legislated quota for women in national and local elections. This is the conclusion reached by Gender Links... [read more]
Roadmap to Equality, Issue 17, June 2011
18 June 11
Regional relevance: Regional
Welcome to the 17th edition of Roadmap to Equality! tracking progress toward the ratification and implementation and of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
The most exciting gender achievement this month may very well be the legalisation of a 30% quota for women’s representation in Mauritius. After... [read more]
Albertina Sisulu - Liberation struggle icon
17 June 11
Albertina Sisulu, the South African liberation struggle icon who died at 92 last week, was the matriarch of a political family whose influence on South African life is widely felt.
Sisulu was co-president of the biggest internal anti-apartheid grouping of the 1980s, the United Democratic Front (UDF).
Her... [read more]
South Africa: Where have all the women gone?
17 May 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
South Africans will cast their votes this week in the third Local Government Elections. This year’s elections have seen a large increase in the number of political parties contesting: 121 parties have been registered. Yet out of these parties the representation of women as candidates has increased by a very slight... [read more]
