Khehla Shubane, who was imprisoned for five years on Robben Island because of his antiapartheid activities, is a research officer at the Center for Policy Studies of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Ghana held its fourth successful elections in late 2008 and subsequently witnessed the peaceful handover of power from ruling party to opposition. The country’s leaders must now reform its institutions…
A decade after the end of apartheid, South African democracy may be headed for trouble because the country has yet to fulfill the three requirements of democratic consolidation: inequality-reducing economic…