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Audits Require Action from all of Society
Audits Require Action from all of Society
Local Government Audit Outcomes Raise Concerns Over Financial Health and Service Delivery
Call to Action: Addressing the Financial Crisis in South Africa’s Local Government
Financial Distress in South Africa’s Major Municipalities: A Growing Concern
Holding Local Government Institutions Accountable: A Call for Urgent Action
Promoting Transparency in Local Government: A Call for Citizen Engagement
Aug 30, 2024
Electoral Democracy, Proportionality and Building Coalitions
Electoral Democracy, Proportionality and Building Coalitions Michael Sutcliffe and Sue...
Aug 26, 2024
Managing Elections in South Africa: Context and Challenges
Managing Elections in South Africa: Context and Challenges Dr. Michael Sutcliffe and Sue...
Aug 5, 2024
Local Government in 2023: How full is the Glass?
Local Government in 2023: How full is the Glass? Michael Sutcliffe and Sue Bannister...
Aug 5, 2024
Addressing the Instability Arising from “Hung” Legislatures in South Africa
Addressing the Instability Arising from “Hung” Legislatures in South Africa Michael Sutcliffe...
Aug 5, 2024
Climate Change and Election Manifestos: How ready are our Parties to Lead?
Climate Change and Election Manifestos: How ready are our Parties to Lead? Michael Sutcliffe...
Aug 5, 2024
Complex Challenges in Housing the Inner City Poor and Vulnerable
Complex Challenges in Housing the Inner City Poor and Vulnerable Dr. Michael Sutcliffe and Sue...
Aug 5, 2024
Municipal Boundary Redetermination
Municipal Boundary Redetermination Dr. Michael Sutcliffe and Sue Bannister (Directors: City...
Aug 5, 2024
Fixing Metropolitan Areas is a non-negotiable to make growth trajectory a reality
Fixing Metropolitan Areas is a Non-Negotiable to make Growth Trajectory a Reality Dr. Michael...
Jul 31, 2024
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
- Audits Require Action from all of Society
- Electoral Democracy, Proportionality and Building Coalitions
- Managing Elections in South Africa: Context and Challenges
- Local Government in 2023: How full is the Glass?
- Addressing the Instability Arising from “Hung” Legislatures in South Africa
- Climate Change and Election Manifestos: How ready are our Parties to Lead?
- Complex Challenges in Housing the Inner City Poor and Vulnerable
- Municipal Boundary Redetermination
- Fixing Metropolitan Areas is a non-negotiable to make growth trajectory a reality
- 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