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Medium-Term Budget Policy
Navigating the Medium-Term Budget Policy The Minister of Finance’s Medium-term Budget Policy...
Nov 6, 2023
Statistics South Africa Census 2022 – 1st Digital Census
Statistics South Africa Census 2022 - 1st Digital Census Statistics South Africa Census 2022 -...
Nov 6, 2023
Water Access and Security is an all of Society Issue
Water Access and Security in South Africa is an all of Society Issue Water access and security...
Oct 1, 2023
What should we be doing in Building and Maintaining our Infrastructure
What should we be doing in building and maintaining our infrastructure? Why is it that every...
Oct 1, 2023
Complex Challenges in Housing the Inner City Poor and Vulnerable
Complex challenges in housing the inner city poor and vulnerable. Michael Sutcliffe and Sue...
Oct 1, 2023
(Re-)Building our Country’s Infrastructure
(Re-)building our Country's Infrastructure Oct 23 Hardly a week goes by without a report on...
Oct 1, 2023
Addressing the Instability Arising from Hung Legislatures in South Africa
Hung Legislatures in South Africa The municipal electoral system The municipal electoral system...
Jun 6, 2023
(Re-)Building our Country’s Infrastructure
Infrastructure in South Africa Hardly a week goes by without a report on possible vandalism...
Apr 18, 2023
Building our Communities through Development Action
The past 20 years has witnessed an increasingly violent nature of protest in our country. ...
Mar 23, 2023
The Infrastructure Challenges Facing Municipalities
The National Development Plan targets infrastructure investment of 30 per cent as a percentage...
Mar 12, 2023
Allowing Independents to contest Provincial and National Elections
In 2007, at its National Conference, the ANC resolved that “Appropriate requirements should be...
Oct 25, 2022
Building the Institutional Capacity of Municipalities
Listening to all the commissions underway at the moment, it is clear that enormous amounts of...
Jul 14, 2022
The State of Local Government Cannot be Judged on Audit Outcomes Alone
The recently released Auditor-General’s consolidated report has again received widespread...
Jun 26, 2022
Driving a Developmental and Implementation Focused Infrastructure Programme
Since 1994, the South African government’s strategies and plans have included many plans, often...
Apr 20, 2022
Municipalities and the Urban Question in South Africa
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION: AFRICAN URBANIZATION.. 1 SOUTH AFRICA’S MUNICIPAL SYSTEM POST...
Apr 24, 2018
Achieving Urban Spatial justice in South Africa
South Africa is highly urbanised compared with most Sub-Saharan African countries. Today, for...
Oct 26, 2017
Managing Development: Private Benefits from the Public Good
Witness There has been a lot of media recently about the National Department of Cooperative...
Nov 13, 2014
Freeing the beaches to unite us
In August 1989, as part of a campaign across our country led by the United Democratic Front, we...
Oct 16, 2014
The Density Dilemma
Our colonial and apartheid past created a wide set of inequalities, and a fragmented governance...
Sep 12, 2014
The Commonwealth Games : ” How is this still a thing?”
The Common Wealth Games ... Why do countries and cities bid to host mega sporting events?...
Jul 29, 2014
- Medium-Term Budget Policy
- Statistics South Africa Census 2022 – 1st Digital Census
- Water Access and Security is an all of Society Issue
- What should we be doing in Building and Maintaining our Infrastructure
- Complex Challenges in Housing the Inner City Poor and Vulnerable
- (Re-)Building our Country’s Infrastructure
- Addressing the Instability Arising from Hung Legislatures in South Africa
- (Re-)Building our Country’s Infrastructure
- Building our Communities through Development Action
- The Infrastructure Challenges Facing Municipalities
- Allowing Independents to contest Provincial and National Elections
- Building the Institutional Capacity of Municipalities
- The State of Local Government Cannot be Judged on Audit Outcomes Alone
- Driving a Developmental and Implementation Focused Infrastructure Programme
- Municipalities and the Urban Question in South Africa
- Achieving Urban Spatial justice in South Africa
- Managing Development: Private Benefits from the Public Good
- Freeing the beaches to unite us
- The Density Dilemma
- The Commonwealth Games : ” How is this still a thing?”
- The beaches are free now let’s continue to free ourselves