Image: ID 176255265 | Constitutional Court © Jacek Sopotnicki | Dreamstime.com By Sarah Meny-Gibert [First published in News24] The Public Procurement Act has been set aside by the Constitutional Court...
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By Tracy Ledger [First published in Amandla! magazine] The current municipal fiscal model is driving both poverty and municipal financial collapse. Current policy approaches are unlikely to deliver a solution....
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Kate Tissington, Senior Researcher at PARI, spoke to SAFM's Bridget Masinga to unpack how local government works, the role of wards and ward councils and councillors.
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PARI's Local Government Programme Lead Jugal Mahabir spoke to Bridget Masinga about municipal finance to understand how municipalities are funded and what their different sources of funding are.
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As South Africa counts down to local government elections, PARI researchers chat to SABC's Liezle Wilson to discuss municipalities, how they work and what we can expect from them. LGE...
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Waseem Holland, a researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute, spoke to Radio Islam about anti-immigration electioneering tactics and what they reveal about the state. Holland's blog on the topic...
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By Waseem Holland [First published in the Daily Maverick] The Madlanga Commission has shifted the discourse on South African grand corruption by framing it as organised crime rather than political...
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Image: Wikimedia Commons By Waseem Holland The pervasiveness of anti-immigration sentiment and rhetoric in South Africa reflects the failure of a nation-building project. In difficult material conditions, where structural transformation...
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Zain Mayet In May 2026, government published the Reviewed Draft White Paper on Local Government – the first complete overhaul since 1998, when the original White Paper shaped the operational...
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The COMPACT Toolbox is Live! The COMPACT programme is a partnership between PARI, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and Integrity Action. In 2026 the partnership culminated in the...
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