Talya O'Haher
Talya Beyers is the Internal Stakeholder Relationship Manager at the IRR and has a Master's in Psycholinguistics from Stellenbosch University. Her work in marketing is informed by her interest in how language and design influence perception and behaviour. She also indulges her interest in human behaviour by watching true crime documentaries and reality TV, usually while working on a colourful knitting project.
Articles By This Author
Don’t just plan to vote
Do you think voting makes a difference? When the #PledgeToVote campaign, an initiative of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), put that question to people in an informal online survey, the most common reason given for answering yes, from more than a quarter of respondents, was that not voting lets others decide on their behalf. The next most popular answers were that voting is how citizens hold politicians accountable and that voting affects who makes important decisions.
Restoring South African democracy, one #PledgeToVote at a time
I’m too young to have participated in the fight for the right to vote for all the people of South Africa. I do, however, remember