IDASA
Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa
| Type | Research Center |
|---|---|
| Website | idasa.org.za |
| Wikipedia |  |
| Year founded | 1987 |
| Year discontinued | 2013 |
| Location |
Port Elizabeth
 South Africa
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| Functions | Advocacy |
| Tags | international development social policy inactive organization |
| Summary | In September 1986, Frederick van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine announced that the Institute for a Democratic Alternative (Idasa) would be launched to debate and imagine what a non-racial democracy in South Africa could and should look like. The Institute would encourage white South Africans to talk and engage with black South Africans through regional and national forums set up to oppose apartheid structures. For more than two decades Idasa became synonymous with the process of political change in South Africa. |
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IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa · 31 March 2010 English
For the things we loved about Van were in fact that very qualities that came from his Afrikaner background: the lack of royal pretension, the respectfulness, the im- patient earthiness …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa · 8 December 2008 English
In October, grantees researching the impact of HIV/AIDS in the security sector – from the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa · 1 January 2007
It has been said that an understanding of the past is the only reliable guide for the future. South Africans would do well to be reminded of that. As a …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
The existence of deep ethnic and religious divisions among people and the opportunistic exploitation of differences make the situation in northern and southern Plateau important in the analysis of election …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
In what was seen as a pioneering measure at the time, the official Plan of Action of the 1994 Presidential Summit of the Americas, celebrating the re- instatement of elected …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
These include: • The development of a new working definition of reconciliation to be used by church leaders to carry the initiative forward • An initial set of plans for …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
• To become 'budget literate' and to see the importance of the budget as a policy instrument in relation to poverty alleviation; • To develop the technical capacity to understand …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
The single largest issue introduced by the evolution of security services by the private sector is the degree to which corporations are now transcending the power of governments, rising as …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
Executive Summary This paper evaluates the extent to which the system is consistent with government’s decentralisation policy using the findings of a companion occasional paper, “The Local Government Grant System, …
IDASA: Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa English
The award ceremony was held in the Civic Centre, the seat of local government, with the simultaneous exhibition held in the Concourse of the Centre. [...] A number of topics …