Youth Day Message from the IJR’s Executive Director: 16 June 2024
This year, South Africa commemorates Youth Day under the theme: [...]
Women’s Call for Equitable Governance Post-Election
SUBMISSION TO REPRESENTED POLITICAL PARTIES ON THE OUTCOME OF THE [...]
Media Statement by the Women’s Election Mechanism for Peace on Undermining the Credibility of South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission
On the eve of South Africa’s 2024 National and Provincial [...]
Women’s Election Mechanism for Peace and Launch of a Peace Charter for South Africa
Pretoria, May 17, 2024 - The Women’s Election Mechanism for [...]
Critical Conversations on Women Peace and Security in Africa: A Dialogue for Progress
Johannesburg, April 9, 2024 - The ‘Critical Conversations on Women [...]
Media Advisory: Women, Peace and Security in Africa
Critical Conversations on Women, Peace and Security in Africa. Journalists [...]
Data for Governance Alliance launches advocacy manual and scorecard on access to courts to promote data-based efforts in Africa
The Data for Governance Alliance (D4GA), a consortium committed to promoting data-based advocacy and engagement between pan-African civil society organisations (CSOs) and African Union organs, has launched an advocacy manual and a scorecard on access to courts during COVID-19.
Call for proposals to conduct 2023 South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey
The IJR intends to conduct a new round of the SARB survey in 2023. Proposals are invited from qualified service providers with demonstrated experience of conducting nationally-representative public opinion surveys in South Africa. The survey methodology is based on face-to-face interviews in multiple languages across all nine provinces in the country. The questionnaire consists of approximately 200 close-ended survey items (including questions and sub-questions), generally based on five-point Likert scales. The majority of these have been used to track reconciliation trends longitudinally over the past 20 years.
Majority of South Africans say Eskom should be privatised, new Afrobarometer study shows
About three-fifths of South Africans say Eskom must be privatised to ensure an effective supply of electricity in the country, a new Afrobarometer survey indicates. An even greater proportion of citizens believe that the government monopoly on electricity provision should be ended to allow other actors to generate and distribute power in South Africa.
IJR Press Release – A Documentary Screening on Bergsig
Cape Town, Monday, 13 February 2023 – “Bergsig” is a documentary film about the problematic “coloured” identity in South Africa and the lasting legacies of apartheid on young people in the country. The documentary is named after a township area created for “coloured” people in Calitzdorp and attempts- through film- to combat the misrepresentation and erasure of “coloured” people from the history of the town.