Chair: Tapiwa Chagonda

1. Steven Gordon- Voting and its discontents: explaining the perceived impact of voting irregularities on the freeness and fairness of South African elections. (HSRC)
2. Eunice Khumalo- An investigation of the role of popular participation in water governance: The case of Madibeng Municipality, North West Province. (South African Research Chair in Social Change, UJ)
3. Mandlenkosi Maphosa and Cornelius Ncube- Devolution and Effective Citizenship in Zimbabwe. (National University of Science and Technology Department and Lupane State University)