University of Cape Town Archives

Unemployed South Africans depended on covid relief grants

Vayda Megannon - August 18, 2022

But this government assistance wasn’t easy — or cheap — to access

Robert Mattes and Christiaan Keulder - November 18, 2021

The fifth in Afrobarometer’s special democracy summit series on Africa

Sithembiso Gumbi, Janet Bellamy, and Alex Dyzenhaus - May 27, 2021

Here’s why millions of rural residents risk losing their customary land rights.

Thomas Isbell and Lulu Olan’g - February 25, 2021

How citizens view taxation could be critical to government responses to emergencies such as the coronavirus

Robert Mattes - March 5, 2019

Afrobarometer finds that the level of commitment varies dramatically by country. Here’s the breakdown.

Carolyn E. Holmes - August 21, 2018

Editors' note: Last night students at the University of North Carolina at

Kim Yi Dionne - December 8, 2017

[caption id="attachment_67093" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Bike taxi operators wait for work

Robert Mattes and Michael Bratton - November 25, 2016

[caption id="attachment_50077" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A member of the Economic Freedom

Joseph Wright, George Derpanopoulos, Erica Frantz, and Barbara Geddes - February 22, 2016

[caption id="attachment_36170" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Egyptians marked the fifth anniversary of

Robert Mattes, E. Gyimah-Boadi, and Boniface Dulani - February 7, 2016

[caption id="attachment_35422" align="aligncenter" width="640"] A highway in Madagascar (Rod Waddington)[/caption]