This article makes a case for transforming local governance to embrace inclusion and accountability through participatory local budgeting. South Africa?s history of participatory local governance and policy-making, which was incorporated to some extent in post-apartheid institutions of local government, implied some intention to follow Brazil?s ground-breaking part...

In response to a shifting political environment characterised by political and policy negotiations, South Africa's largest and most influential trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), incorporated policy research, analysis and engagement into its core activities beginning in the 1990s. This article analyses some of the challenge...

This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, titled Legacies of Liberation: Postcolonial Struggles for a Democratic Southern Africa, seeks to explore the ongoing struggle for legitimate, accountable political leaders in post-colonial contexts where ex-liberation movements form the governments. The first two articles, by Teresa Debly and David ...