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Research data: ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS (EFF)
2019 Economic Freedom Fighters: authoritarian or democratic contestant?
The general elections of 2019 represented a critical test for the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF), formed in mid-2013 following the expulsion...
Download this report2018 South Africa's social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?
Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the con...
Download this report2016 Whose economic freedom anyway?: revelations from the South African discourse
The Economic Freedom Index published by the Heritage Foundation ranks South Africa at 72nd out of 178 countries in terms of economic freedom...