PARI researcher and doctoral fellow, Crispian Olver, launched his controversial book, “How to Steal a City: The battle for Nelson Mandela Bay” on October 23. Olver was a government “fixer”...
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A photo essay on the Mogalakwena Municipality by Leon Sadiki. Part of the PARI project on Mogalakwena Local Municipality. 20170904_NFrontiers_MOG01 mogalakwena municipality6 mogalakwena municipality8 mogalakwena municipality13 mogalakwena municipality23 mogalakwena municipality24 mogalakwena municipality30...
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PARI was well-represented at the Archives and Democracy: Colloquium of Civil Society on 24 August, 2017. The day-long programme featured five panels discussing the apartheid era archives, the importance of...
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PARI will shortly launch a major, new initiative on public sector reform. This comes in the context of the institute’s ongoing research into how government works and in the wake...
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In The Media: Party Political Funding Since PARI’s 15 August submission to the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on political party funding, the committee has already met to review a draft...
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From September 11-13, Federica Duca attended the RC21 Conference in Leeds, titled Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies. Duca convened a roundtable “Elites and...
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Waseem Holland has joined PARI as an intern for four months, and is currently engaged in a research project around state capture. From 2011, Waseem Holland worked with the Electoral...
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PARI hosts a public lecture by UCT Politics senior lecturer, Vinothan Naidoo. Download the working paper here. The notion of ‘state machinery’ is usually employed to describe and critique the...
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On 16 August, senior researcher Federica Duca gave a talk at Urban Anxieties in the Global South, a project by Wits Media Studies and WiSER. Federica’s talk titled, “Macabre and...
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