Seminar on Comparative Experiences of Democratisation in East Asia and Southern Africa
The South African Institute of International Affairs presented a Seminar on 'Comparative Experiences of Democratisation in East Asia and Southern Africa'Tuesday, 24th April, 2007
A full Report of the Conference Proceedings is available for download. [.doc]
Welcome: Neuma Grobbelaar, Director of Studies at SAIIAKeynote Address: Mr Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court.
Transcript [.pdf]
First Panel: The East Asian Experience
Moderator: Dr Garth le Pere, Director of the Institute for Global Dialogue
First Speaker: Professor David WF Huang, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, National Taiwan University, Taipei
From Autocracy to Democracy in Taiwan: the experience of the past two decades. [.pdf]
Second Speaker: Dr Naruemon Thabchumpon, University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand
Current Developments in Thailand: Military Coup to a New Constitution? [.pdf]
Discussion (edited) of the Papers of Dr David Huang and Dr Naruemon [.pdf]
Respondent: Professor Garth Shelton, University of the Witwatersrand
Transcript [.pdf]
Second Panel: The Southern African Experience
Moderated by: Moeletsi Mbeki, Deputy Chairman of the SAIIA National Council
First Speaker: Professor Jotham Momba, University of Zambia, Lusaka
Where corruption and politics intersect: The case of Zambia [.pdf]
Second Speaker: Fluksman Samuehl, former Member of Parliament, Windhoek
Namibia: A third term presidency in all but name? [.pdf]
Third Speaker: Professor Steven Friedman, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
The South African Success Story: Is it sustainable? [.pdf]
Fourth Speaker: Ms Rindai Chipfunde-Vava, National Director Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN).
Resuscitating party politics in Zimbabwe: Scenarios for the 21st Century. [.pdf]
Respondent: Tim Hughes, Parliamentary Research Fellow, SAIIA
Transcript [.pdf]
Summation and Concluding Remarks: Ayesha Kajee, Democracy and Political Party Systems Project, SAIIA
Transcript [.pdf]
On 19 June 2007,
a further presentation was delivered by Dr Rizal Sukma, Deputy
Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia, who had been unable to attend the Seminar
on 24 April.
Islam, Democracy, and Foreign Policy in Indonesia. [.pdf]
