Ezra Mendel, Intern at the FW de Klerk Foundation, analyses the impact of Western elections on South Africa.
Ezra Mendel, Intern, and Ismail Joosub, Constitutional Advancement Manager, analyses the profound implications of France’s recent parliamentary elections on South Africa.
Ezra Mendel seeks to analyse the impact of the United States of America’s election on South Africa, especially given the rise of global geopolitical tensions.
Viewed as the ‘biggest election year in history’, 2024 will witness a major test for liberal democracy – with some measures suggesting a great turn to authoritarianism is on the horizon for most of the world…
This piece assesses recent court judgements, electoral laws and legislative developments to gauge their impact on South Africa’s constitutional integrity, as far as electoral laws are concerned.
In this second article of the Election Series, Ezra Mendel and Shaun Kinnes, Interns at the FW de Klerk Foundation, assess what electoral governance is, as well as the various hurdles it encounters and possible solutions.
This is the third and final article in the series on nuclear weapons and the increased threat these weapons once again pose to civilisation. This article examines military expenditure given the current geo-political atmosphere.
In this article, we will assess the opportunities and challenges that emerge from the ‘intersection’ between nuclear production programmes, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. This analysis closes by assessing mitigation strategies in relation to AI integration in nuclear power.
In this article we will look into the geopolitics of nuclear weapons and efforts aimed at nuclear non-proliferation.
