Can elements of a Social Market Economy facilitate sustainable development in African countries? For an episode of the podcast series “Global Perspectives” being produced by our HSF team in Munich with colleagues from different country offices, we explored this question with experts from South Africa and Germany.

The former Prosecutor of the ICC and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2021 gave an incisive 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture from The Hague in The Netherlands - at an event hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, with HSF support.

Find out about the project work our partner institutions in South Africa have been focussing on over the past months - read about recent and upcoming seminars, workshops, research and publications. You will find links to videos, concise articles and opinion pieces in our HSF Quarterly ... open it to discover exciting news, free resources and current analysis.

Together with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, we cordially invite you to join the 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture by former ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, which we are honoured to support. The theme of this year's Lecture is "The Rule of Law, International Criminal Justice and Sustainable Development".

Our partner team in the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape has just published 10 Factsheets on Decentralisation in Africa, with HSF support. Find out more about the project, and explore the insightful Factsheets.