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The DDP was initiated in 1993 as a partner project of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of Germany. For the last 16 years it has been a non-partisan non-profit organisation, supporting capacity building on governance and civil society levels to ensure that both are empowered for meaningful participation in South Africa’s social transformation.

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Public Forum: The 2010 FIFA World Cup and its impact on South Africans

leadimage_thumb.jpgJuly 2nd, 2010, Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel - Three weeks into the tournament, DDP hosted a public forum on the 2010 FIFA World Cup to critically examine the costs and benefits that the event was expected to yield and has yielded for South Africa and its people. Three speakers who have publicized on different issues around the World Cup were invited and gave inputs for subsequent discussion. They were Sam Sole, an investigative journalist for the Mail & Guardian, Dr. Orli Bass, who is with UKZN’s Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity and Prof. Brij Maharaj, from the Department of Geography at UKZN.                            

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A burning issue of communication

By Imraan Baccus -- News of a community setting schools alight points not so much to frustration over poor service, but to rage over not being consulted.

Recently we heard shocking news about a community in the North West that went about burning schools because they were unhappy with a gravel road that was meant to be tarred.

To make matters worse, schoolchildren were prevented from going to school, in an attempt at getting the local authority to act. Now, 16 years into democracy, this is very difficult to understand. Why would a community behave this way? 

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