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Image: Water leak in road, Johannesburg/Bram Lammers Photography for PARI By Tracy Ledger and Jugal Mahabir Extravagant councillor lunches should be sacrificed to ensure that everyone in Johannesburg receives their…
The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) and the Johannesburg Crisis: Concerned Academics, launch a seminar series to offer scholars, researchers,…
Image: KwaZulu-Natal/Simon Hull/November 2024 On 5 March, Land Governance Programme Lead Gaynor Paradza participated in the SALGA National Working Group on Development Planning and Rural Development. Dr Paradza shared…
LATEST WORK
Image: Water leak in road, Johannesburg/Bram Lammers Photography for PARI By Tracy Ledger and Jugal Mahabir Extravagant councillor lunches should be sacrificed to ensure that everyone in Johannesburg receives their…
About this brief Effective parliamentary oversight is essential for democracy. The Constitution enshrines the National Assembly’s mandate to exercise oversight over the Executive arm of government. But committees are the…
2025 Duca, F., A. Mutua, L. Tetley-Brown, G. Karuri-Sebina and J. Backhouse (2025) 'A systematic review of smart city governance in the Southern African Development Community'. Nature Cities 2: 149–56.…
Support and Solidarity! 🇿🇦
Time for Europe and democrats globally to step up and stand firm with our South African friends as the US administration withdraws solidarity and spreads misinformation and false accusations.
@ForDemocracySa @PARInstitute @SERI_RightsSA ...
PARI internal seminars have kicked off this year with Jugal Mahabir, Local Government Programme Lead presenting a model measuring municipal revenue capacity vs actual collections over time.
@feriduca @JugalMahabir
South African policy makers need to transform land administration and tenure in South Africa. The 3rd policy brief in the land administration series.
@GaynorParadza @LRCSouthAfrica
SPOTLIGHT ON JOBURG
Image: Water leak in road, Johannesburg/Bram Lammers Photography for PARI By Tracy Ledger and Jugal Mahabir Extravagant councillor lunches should be sacrificed to ensure that everyone in Johannesburg receives their…
The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) and the Johannesburg Crisis: Concerned Academics, launch a seminar series to offer scholars, researchers,…
PARI's internal reading group has chosen Benjamin Bradlow's Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sǎo Paulo and Johannesburg to read this year. The book seeks to understand why some cities are…
Image: Water leaks, Johannesburg/Bram Lammers Photography for PARI By Tracy Ledger South Africa is one of only 52 countries that guarantee access to water as a human right. “Access” from…
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