DDP Podcasts

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DDP Podcasts episodes

  • Exploring the Culture of Democracy in Africa
    In this episode we are joined by Cynthia Chigwenya from the Konrad Adenaur Stiftung and African Union Youth Ambassador. Cynthia is a political researcher and pracademic with experience in international policymaking. Her advocacy is grounded in research, having served at think tanks, and published on topical issues including, Europe-Africa relations, transcontinental infrastructure and climate finance in EMEs. She holds a B.Soc.Sci in Criminology and International Studies, a BA (Hons) and MA in Development Studies and an MPhil in Social Policy. Cynthia specialised on transitional justice and reconstruction in post-genocide Rwanda and conflict mediation in South Sudan. She is a TEDx speaker, recognised as a MIPAD Global 100 under 40 awardee in politics and governance; and has spoken at various symposia, including the EU-AU Summit and the BRICS Roundtable Dialogue on financing clean technologies. In May 2023, she briefed the 9315th Meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on futureproofing trust for peacebuilding. Cynthia has worked with several organisations promoting SDGs and the Agenda 2063 in Africa, she currently serves as the African Union’s Youth Ambassador for Peace for Southern Africa and works as a Programme Coordinator for Political Dialogue in Sub-Saharan Africa at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. She has previously held research positions in the South African Parliament and at the National Genocide Commission in Rwanda.
    34 min
  • Women Representation in Parliament
    Joining us for this episode is Diana Demba-Mutondo. Diana is a young and dynamic woman from Chad that was born in Cote d’Ivoire and raised in Ethiopia, Rwanda, France and South Africa where she currently works for the African Peer Review Mechanism as a researcher and country coordinator.With a background in Marketing and Management, Diana has started up a career in the private sector before joining the public and developmental sector. She is passionate about all things communication and technology. She is also an advocate for gender equality as well as Human trafficking and is a member of the Community Voices for Peace Pluralism-Africa and the A21 organisation which works towards abolishing modern-day slavery.
    41 min
  • Democracy Re-Imagined: An Era of Imagination; An Era of Doubt
    Joining us for this episode is Resident Representive, Gregor Jaecke from KAS South Africa. From January 2019 to April 2022, Gregor Jaecke was the Head of the Syria/Iraq-Office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was posted to Kenya to lead the EU-funded KAS program “Strengthening the capacities of state and non-state actors for effective decentralized governance” (2015-2017) and to the Democratic Republic of Congo to head the foundation’s country project and a project on food security (2016-2018). Jaecke studied Public Policy and Management at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Before joining the foundation, he was General Manager and Campaign Manager of the CDU Hamburg and was already working for KAS as an expert for various short-term projects.
    21 min
  • Reflecting on South Africa's Democratic Journey: A Media Perspective
    Joining us for this episode is Prof Anton Harber, Executive Director of the Campaign for Freexpression. Anton was a co-founder and editor of the anti-apartheid newspaper the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian), Editor-in-Chief of South Africa’s leading television news channel, eNCA, and chief executive of Kagiso Broadcasting. He is board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, chair of Africa Check and former chair of the SA Conference of Editors and the National Association of Broadcasters. Harber most recent book is Southern African Muckraking (Jacana, 2018). He wrote Diepsloot (Jonathan Ball, 2011), The Gorilla in the Room (Mampoer Shorts, 2013) and co edited the first two editions of The A–Z of South African Politics (Penguin, 1994/6).
    29 min
  • Coalition Governance

    Joining us for this episode is Mr Jacob Stensdal. Mr Jacob Stensdal is the Deputy Head of Mission at the Royal Danish Embassy in South Africa. The Embassy also covers Denmark’s bilateral relations with Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

    Mr Jacob Stensdal has i.a. previously held the positions of Political and Press Advisor at Invest in Denmark and Senior Advisor on Mashrek in the Middle East and North Africa Department in Copenhagen. He was also previously posted as special advisor on development and trade to the Danish Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been working with the Danish Embassy and the Deepening Democracy Programme in Uganda.

    Mr. Jacob Stensdal holds a Master of Political Science from University of Aarhus Denmark. He is married and has three children.

    Contact

    Royal Danish Embassy iParioli Office Park, Block B2 1166 Park St, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0083, South Africa

    Phone: +27 12 430 9351 Website: Sydafrika.um.dk

    Social Media Twitter: @DKAMBinSA

    25 min
  • Deepening Democracy in South Africa

    Season 2 is here. Joining us for our first episode is DDP Executive Director - Dr Paul Kariuki. Dr Kariuki shares with us the 2023 vision of DDP and unpacks South Africa's democratic journey, along with DDP's contribution to that journey. Don't forget to check out our social media pages to stay updated with the year's activities.

    33 min
  • Protecting Democratic Values

    Joining us for today's podcast is H.E. HĂĄkan Juholt, Swedish Ambassador to South Africa. This episode was done in collaboration with the Emerging Scholars Initiative Press: https://esipress.up.ac.za/

    28 min
  • Migration in the 21st Century

    Joining us in this episode is David Kabwa to discuss Migration in the 21st Century.

    Migration Conference details:

    29 September 2022

    08:30

    Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-6tqD0qH9BrVFRA7iQK9Y75aik6YOsg

    Mr Kabwa's Bio

    David Kabwa is currently a student at the University of Pretoria pursuing a Master’s Degree in Diplomatic Studies under the Centre For Mediation in Africa. He is currently serving as the Country Ambassador for South Africa to the UNITE 2030 Initiative. Moreover, he is an inaugural member of the African Union Youth For Transitional Justice (AY4TJ) continental platform where he was trained as a youth expert in the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP) by the AU Department For Political Affairs, Peace and Security. He has also recently been appointed to the board of the America Africa Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum (AAEIF). In 2019, he was elected as the Prime Minister for the Commonwealth Youth Parliament. He was the first African elected to this position where he would oversee the legislative affairs of young people across 54 countries. He also served for two consecutive terms as the Student Representative Council President of the University of Pretoria as an independent where he would oversee 60 000 students across seven campuses. He was the first President to complete terms as an independent. Mr Kabwa has also served as the Chairperson of Second Commission in the Gauteng Youth Sector Parliament. He has also been inducted into the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans and the Junior Chamber International Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons In South Africa in the category of politics. In 2021, he was an augural recipient of the Hope Givers Foundation in Association with Brand South Africa and the National Lotteries Commission Raising Legends Award in the category Academia, Advocacy and Leadership for work done to combat Gender-Based Violence through the Boy-Child Initiative.

    34 min
  • Women, Leadership & Democracy

    Joining us for this episode is Zainab Olaitan. Zainab Olaitan is a PhD candidate in the department of political sciences, University of Pretoria where she is researching the impact of gender quotas on the substantive representation of women in African politics. She obtained her first degree in Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Political Science with First class honours from the University of Lagos. Zainab completed her second degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Honors at the University of Cape Town as a 2018 Mandela Rhodes Scholar. In 2019, she got the MasterCard foundation scholarship to complete a master’s degree in Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. In 2022, she was awarded the Margaret McNamara Education Grant for her impactful research work on women and children. Zainab is an avid researcher with published articles in local and international journals" and is keenly interested in contributing to research on gender and representation, conflict and peace studies and political thought.

    35 min

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