Navigating the Medium-Term Budget Policy The Minister of Finance’s Medium-term Budget Policy Speech (MTBS) was delivered during a time of severe fiscal constraint. Despite some negative commentaries, there are in fact many positive initiatives. These range from...
Statistics South Africa Census 2022 - 1st Digital Census Statistics South Africa Census 2022 - Unpacking this exciting milestone for our Country and looking at Insights and Implications for South Africa. Census 2022 Celebrating a Milestone: South Africa's First...
Water Access and Security pis an all of Society Issue Every day there are reminders that we remain one of the most unequal countries in the world. This inequality can also be seen in terms of consumption levels of basic network services, where access to water ranks...
What should we be doing in building and maintaining our infrastructure? Why is it that every time municipal infrastructure fails in South Africa we behave as if it does not happen elsewhere and that nothing is being done to build new, upgrade old and maintain...
Complex challenges in housing the inner city poor and vulnerable. Michael Sutcliffe and Sue Bannister (Directors: City Insight (Pty) Ltd) Waking up to news of the tragedy yesterday where over 70 people died, including 12 children, after a fire in a building in the...
(Re-)building our Country's Infrastructure Oct 23 Hardly a week goes by without a report on possible vandalism occurring on critical infrastructure. Recently, in Tshwane a number of pylons fell down and high voltage cables blocked the N4 freeway, resulting in a...
Hung Legislatures in South Africa The municipal electoral system The municipal electoral system has had five municipal elections, all of which have been declared as free, fair, and safe with almost no disruption of the elections. The elections have all been keenly...
Infrastructure in South Africa Hardly a week goes by without a report on possible vandalism occurring on critical infrastructure. Recently, in Tshwane a number of pylons fell down and high-voltage cables blocked the N4 freeway, resulting in a significant portion...
The past 20 years has witnessed an increasingly violent nature of protest in our country. Research, such as that by Municipal IQ, shows that over 70% of all protests has been violent. Hardly a day goes by without a media report on public properties being...
The National Development Plan targets infrastructure investment of 30 per cent as a percentage of GDP by 2030. However, National Treasury estimated that between 2010 and 2020, public‐sector capital investment averaged 5.8 per cent of GDP, while private capital...
