The 17th issue of Curiosity, Wits University’s research magazine, is themed: #Democracy. As South Africans celebrate 30 years of democracy, we turned to our academics and professional staff for their research, perspectives and commentary across faculties on both the progress and our shortcomings in our democracy. Their work interrogates democracy as a political system and its liberal, conservative, and other alternatives. We share research and expertise on hot topics including AI, religion, migration, social grants, and the National Health Insurance. Our feature stories explore how media maintain and support democracy in the 21st century, and how crime and corruption undermine it. Despite our shortcomings, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic for the country’s future.
Produced by Wits Communications, Curios.ty is a print and digital magazine that tells the stories of pioneering research through the voices of the talented researchers, students and academics at Wits University in Johannesburg.
