HOW DO THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE VIEW THEIR GOVT PERFOMANCE?

The wider South African society has a moral duty and responsibility to monitor the government perfomance and possible implications for policy making as the new Cabinet, representative of heterogenous interests under the stewardship of President Jacob Zuma assumes office.

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in partnership with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) have organised a series of Afrobarometer Workshops for different target groups (i.e business, civil society and politicians) to engage over this recent development whereby they aim to provide relevant extracts of survey findings and trends conducted throughout the continent.

Facilitators of the debate,Executive Director of Democracy Development Programme Dr Rama Naidu,have announced that the Afrobarometer briefing will be held in Durban next week.
Naidu explained that the panelists will be presenting comparative research findings from research undertaken to public attitudes surveys in more that twenty (20) African countries.

"South African people carry an enormous responsibility to keep their duly-elected government under check at all times regarding its perfomance on deliverables.
We measured public attitudes on democracy and its alternatives, evaluations of the quality of governance and economic perfomance.
We conducted the survey by assessing the views of the electorate on critical political issues in the surveyed countries" explained Naidu

The presentation of the Afrobarometer survey, he added, will provide an insight into how the Africans people view the perfomance of the government and how can it be used as a way of describing the political situation that faces the newly-elected government at the beginning of its term.

Executive Director of IDASA Paul Graham highlighted that his keynote presentation was not aimed at influencing the policy direction taken or still to be taken by the South African government but instead, he said, theirs is a platform whereby the wider civil society can deliberate on 'views on government perfomance and possible implications for policy making'.
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