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In Südafrika unterstützt die Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung wegweisende empirische Forschungsprojekte, Publikationen und Rundtischgespräche, die eine alternative Plattform für Debatten und den freien Austausch von Ideen bieten. Diese Aktivitäten befassen sich mit den sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen, mit denen Südafrika in seiner weiteren Entwicklung konfrontiert ist. Sie zielen darauf ab, praktische politische Empfehlungen und Lösungen anzubieten. Ein wichtiger Teil der Arbeit der Stiftung in Südafrika konzentriert sich auf die Zusammenarbeit mit der Democratic Alliance (DA) - Südafrikas liberale Stimme.
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Cry, the beloved country – Impfchaos in Südafrika
Die zweite Welle der Corona-Pandemie hat Südafrika mit voller Wucht erfasst. Doch die Regierung hat weder einen Plan zur Beschaffung von Impfstoffen, noch zur Verteilung. Massenimpfungen erfordern monatelange Vorbereitung, die Einrichtung von komplexen Steuerungssystemen sowie den strategischen Einsatz von Ressourcen. Keine dieser notwendigen Vorbereitungen hat bisher stattgefunden. Aufgrund des Versagens der südafrikanischen Regierung droht eine nie dagewesene Gesundheitskrise, analysiert Cecelia Kok.
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South Africa's Dark Past and Present with Judge Edwin Cameron
In this very first episode, we start our journey in South Africa. We interview the well renowned South African lawyer and retired judge from South Africa’s Constitutional Court, Judge Edwin Cameron, who is in conversation with Nangamso Kwinana of the Africa Liberal Network. Judge Cameron gives us deep insights into South Africa's dark past and discusses the current human rights problems.
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Covid-19 and Fake News Survey in South Africa
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany conduct an international survey on the topic "Coronavirus and Disinformation" as part of the global #FreedomFightsFake campaign against disinformation and fake news. Besides Germany, the survey was conducted on 7,300 in the USA, Mexico, South Africa, India, Jordan and the Philippines.
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Green Businesses in South Africa Get One-Stop Info Hub
GreenCape and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom have launched a green business directory aimed at South African businesses. The South African sector development agency, GreenCape, and the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom have built on a one-stop digital water hub they started in 2019 in response to the drought conditions dominating life in the Western Cape.
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Why a Liberal Party is Needed Now (in South Africa) More Than Ever
In South Africa today there often is a deep fear, for some of the reasons I described above and for another I will address shortly, for falling on the wrong side, not of ideology, but of political fashion or for daring to venture outside the strict limits demarcated for debate by the new thought police.
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Despite Challenges, Democracy in South Africa is Alive and Well
FNF Africa, with our delegation, which had official IEC accreditation and consisted of 19 observers representing more than 15 countries including Denmark, Germany, South Africa, Kenya, Myanmar, India, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Finland and Lebanon (of politicians, civil society activists, media and staff), will continue to monitor the process further ie. the counting of votes, and the follow-up of the elections including the forming of governments. We shall coordinate with other accredited observer missions.
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South Africa’s Elections - A test of Hope in a changing Society
Since South Africa became a free country in 1994 under the leadership of then President Nelson Mandela, the country’s politics was generally easy to understand, and elections relatively easy to predict. They were simply a test of the current popularity of the governing African National Congress (ANC).
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Watch the full event and panelist discussion with former Chief Justice of Kenya, Dr Willy M Mutunga and Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. The event is moderated by Judie Kaberia who is a human rights activist, moderator and journalist. FNF launched the Promoting Civil Liberties in East Africa playbook on 25 March 2021. Interviews and survey reports from the report are accessible here: https://www.freiheit.org/sub-saharan-africa/promoting-civil-liberties-covid-19-era
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On 25 February 2021, FNF hosted an event in Nairobi to report on the findings of a one-of-a-kind survey and launch of a playbook titled Promoting Civil Liberties in East Africa. The event was attended by a number of key individuals from the political, government, diplomatic, media and NGO sectors. Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo of Chapter Four UG, who couldn't attend the event physically because his passport is still being held as part of bail conditions following his arrested ahead of the elections in Uganda. He prepared an online statement that he presented virtually during the event. The full event video will be published at 18:00 EAT on 1 March 2021.
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Op-Ed: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) commissioned qualitative and quantitative research in East Africa. The purpose was to assess citizen attitudes to promoting and protecting civil liberties in the region. We did this by understanding citizen engagement in elections, the state of civil liberties and how they are restricted, institutions restricting civil liberties, success stories of community activism and the civil liberties the public are motivated to protect. The results of this research will be used to equip civil society with messaging, strategies and tactics to fight back against authoritarianism and anti-democratic practices. Next Monday we will be publishing the video presentation to the launch of the playbook Promoting Civil Liberties in East Africa. https://www.freiheit.org/sub-saharan-africa/east-africa-needs-liberal-restart-protect-and-promote-civil-liberties
