This policy brief explores the municipal–traditional authority nexus through the lens of land development applications. By focusing on how traditional authorities handle land applications, the brief provides an insight into...
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The apartheid legacy of imposing an exclusive private property regime, thereby rendering indigenous forms of tenure invisible, continues to contribute to the high levels of poverty on the continent, and...
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Submission of Public Comment to the Department of Cooperative Governance 30 July 2024 The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Local Government: Municipal Structures...
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1 August 2023 Facilitated by Jonathan Klaaren (PARI/Wits) with speakers: Steven Powell (ENSAfrica) Sopé Williams-Elegbe (Stellenbosch University) Carika Fritz (Wits University) Ryan Brunette (PARI/CUNY) This webinar is to support discussion...
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Care economy as economic democracy With the Covid-19 pandemic, conversations around the care economy have become more common. Around the world, however, few governments have actually increased investment in the...
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Dr Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Professor Alex Van den Heever joined SABC Morning Live via Zoom this morning. Watch the full video below. South Africa's Public Health System has been allocated...
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Following the commissioned literature review, The Challenge of Prioritisation and Alignment in Public Sector Planning and Implementation, for Twende Mbele (http://www.twendembele.org), authors Tracy Ledger and Sarah Meny-Gibert have extrapolated the…
WORKING PAPER | FEBRUARY 2018Machinery of Government Change in South Africa’s Post-democratic Public Administration South Africa’s public administration machinery underwent extensive organisational remodelling following the country’s 1994 democratic transition. The...
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Alliance for Rural Democracy On 19 February 2018, Mbongiseni Buthelezi attended the Rural Democracy Trust's National Campaigns Planning Meeting, hosted by the Alliance for Rural Democracy. Objectives of the meeting:...
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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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