South Africa’s Future: Symposium—Inkatha Freedom Party

With brutal resolve, the ruling party sought not merely to win an election, but to annihilate the opposition. Now, with President John Magufuli gone, that strategic rationale will likely only…

Evidence from waves of democratization shows proportional election systems, however imperfect, to be the better option in most contexts.

Over the ten years since its first nonracial elections in 1994, South Africa has seen its democratic order become more firmly institutionalized, even as the electoral dominance of the ANC…