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Symposium | State, Democracy and the Promise of Development: South Africa in comparative perspective
The symposium, State, Democracy and the Promise of Development: South Africa in comparative perspective is taking place at Wits University on 15 and 16 May, in collaboration with Brown University. In…
Dr Tracy Ledger is PARI's Just Transition Programme Lead. She was a panellist at the Embassy of Brazil in South Africa on 30 April 2025, to engage in the discussion,…
Dr Gaynor Paradza, PARI's Land Governance Programme Lead, is participating in this conference on transition-effective land governance on 5 May 2025, as part of the World Bank Land Conference 2025.…
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About this brief Climate change is necessitating a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Despite policies implemented to mitigate the impacts, marginalised groups – including indigenous people, women…
Symposium | State, Democracy and the Promise of Development: South Africa in comparative perspective
The symposium, State, Democracy and the Promise of Development: South Africa in comparative perspective is taking place at Wits University on 15 and 16 May, in collaboration with Brown University. In…
About this brief This policy brief is one of a series developed by the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), intended to contribute to a strategy for state reform. The series…
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
By Lily Manoim, graduate of PARI's Organisational and Institutional Studies programme. This is article is grounded in her Master's thesis. Volume 5 - Issue 1 - 2025 | New Sociological…
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: 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…
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…
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