International Reports 4/2009
South Africa After the Elections | South Africa‘s Foreign Policy in the Post-Mbeki-Era | South Africa‘s Media – Between Free Reporting and Political Interference | Ten Years of Democratization – an Atmospheric Picture of Nigeria | Bolivia’s Constitutional Referendum of 2009 – an Analysis
South Africa After the Elections
The ruling ANC party once again emerged victorious from South Africa’s fourth democratic elections which were held on April 22 of this year. Having won 65.9 percent of the vote, it missed the two-thirds majority in parliament by a very narrow margin. Werner Böhler, Julia Steffenfauseweh (ehem. Weber) more...
South Africa‘s Foreign Policy in the Post-Mbeki-Era
While South Africa was the apple of the world’s eye in the years after 1994, the Mbeki era and even more so the post-Mbeki era face fundamental challenges to which the ANC will have to respond. Elizabeth Sidiropoulos more...
South Africa‘s Media – Between Free Reporting and Political Interference
South Africa’s media landscape is highly developed, diversified, and even free. Although attempts to interfere are made again and again, freedom of opinion has never been threatened in its foundations so far. On the one hand, the media are ever ready to defend themselves, not least because of their experience under the rule of apartheid. On the other, civil society in South Africa is wide awake and sensitive to the problem. The fact that media coverage is dominated by the ruling party throws at least a shadow on the freedom of the media. Frank Windeck more...
Ten Years of Democratization – an Atmospheric Picture of Nigeria
Nigeria will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the introduction of democracy late in May this year and the 50th anniversary of independence next year. Klaus Paehler more...
Bolivia’s Constitutional Referendum of 2009 – an Analysis
Very probably, the constitutional referendum of 25 January 2009 is an outstanding event in the history of the domestic policy of crisis-ridden Bolivia after Evo Morales assumed the office of president. Stefan Jost more...
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