African Democratic Institute -Debate Club (ADI-DC) 

The ADI Debate Club is a debate platform created by the African Democratic Institute in order to achieve democracy and economic emancipation of Africa by assembling young minds to discuss solutions on problematic countries. This concept is being implemented in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. This initiative is currently operational in South Africa and Zimbabwe and the idea is to have these debates in five countries by April and these countries are Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and the entire southern African region by year end (2010 December). Parallel to these public debates are high school debates that are currently being rolled out in South Africa. These initiatives shall be implemented in all African countries and through these platform youths are going to be identified who are going to work under the ADI youth leadership program. 

Benefits of the ADI Debate Club: Gold Members

•  Access to political updates from the African Democratic Institute
•  Access to discussion forums on the Institute’s website
•  Access to internship programmes at the Institute
•  First priority on all paid research work facilitated by the Institute
•  Access to keynote speakers at all Institute debate platforms
•  Access to a reserved seat at the Witwatersrand Debate Platform
•  Space to blog in the Institute’s website- Access to ADI political library
•  Access to ADI leadership training programme
•  Access to funding to carry out research on behalf of the Institute 

General Membership

•  Get regular political updates from the Institute
•  Access to Internship Programme with the Institute
•  Access to monthly Witwatersrand Debates
•  Access to ADI discussion forums- Access to ADI Debate club sessions
•  Priority on research work conducted by the Institute
•  Access to fellowship programmes organised by the Institute
•  Access to the ADI political library
•  Access to educational bursaries