This publication brings together analysis from the Afrobarometer Round 6 covering the 2014 to 2016 period, including the South Africa survey  that was conducted in August/September 2015  by giving detailed insight by the Afrobarometer team at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. It comprises dispatches and policy papers into what ordinary citizens perceive of democracy and governance, the economy, politics and major social issues more than 20 years into the democratic dispensation.