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Dictatorship

How SA’s democratic society weakens Ramaphosa’s hand against Rwandan dictatorship

Africa

How SA’s democratic society weakens Ramaphosa’s hand against Rwandan dictatorship

By Stephen Grootes

Unveiling a dictatorship — Angola’s new security law

Maverick Citizen

Unveiling a dictatorship — Angola’s new security law

By Paula Cristina Roque and David Boio

Never again — world waits to see if Chileans will vote to say goodbye to Pinochet’s neoliberalism

World

Never again — world waits to see if Chileans will vote to say goodbye to Pinochet’s neoliberalism

By Olaf Kaltmeier, Alberto Acosta, Luis Bazán, Ulrich Brand, Claudia Briones, David Diaz Arias and Mara Viveros

With China backing the junta and Aung San Suu Kyi in prison, Myanmar is stuck in newest iteration of military rule

World

With China backing the junta and Aung San Suu Kyi in prison, Myanmar is stuck in newest iteration of military rule

By J Brooks Spector

Why the very DNA of most modern democracies is authoritarian in nature

South Africa

Why the very DNA of most modern democracies is authoritarian in nature

By Richard Poplak

Afrobarometer surveys African attitudes, but do South Africans actually believe in democracy?

Politics

Afrobarometer surveys African attitudes, but do South Africans actually believe in democracy?

By Greg Nicolson