Over the past two days, we have been participating in a very stimulating, productive interdisciplinary workshop with the team of the African Futures and Innovation Project at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria which was supported by the HSF.

A high level delegation from Zimbabwe with senior representatives from the opposition, the governing party, academia and civil society was hosted by the HSF in Brussels this week. A conference held by the Hanns Seidel Foundation saw robust discussions about the severe crisis in the economy after the recent elections, its reasons and potential solutions, as well as the state of democracy in the country.

The Hanns Seidel Foundation South Africa recently hosted two senior German police officials during a week-long visit for a series of engagements with representatives of Government, SAPS leadership, the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service, researchers and civil society organisations.

Our Civics Academy team held a productive meeting at the Department of Higher Education in Pretoria recently. The collaboration will enable Technical Colleges to use our Civics Academy videos in Life Orientation lessons.

This is the title of a new research report just published by the African Futures and Innovation Program, one of our partner projects in South Africa. It was launched by the author Jakkie Cilliers at the ISS in Pretoria this week.