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We are proud that the Breaking Down Barriers project, in cooperation with the Liliane Foundation and partners in Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Zambia, has been nominated for the Impact Challenge Award 2019. Come and listen to the pitch on 29 March when the winner will be chosen at the Impact Event in Amsterdam!

Jan-Bart Gewald, Harry Wels and Frans Kamsteeg present a grim picture of South Africa as an emerging stagnant political economy that seems to conform smoothly to the conspiracy of authoritarians. ‘South Africa's BRICS partnership seems now stronger than ever, as the “Rainbow Nation” shares the “my country first” credo supported by the politics of authoritarian leadership’, they write in a contribution to Clingendael Spectator.