By Emma Monama Abstract South Africa’s failure to transform the spatial geography of apartheid has been centrally attributed to policy failure. Drawing on empirical research in Lephalale, a town in...
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By Thomas Lesaffre Abstract The present condition of the South African state has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, with many questions raised about the failure of...
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By Joel Pearson Abstract This article considers the role that documents played in episodes of political conflict that gripped the conflictual Mogalakwena Local Municipality in Limpopo province, South Africa. Advancing...
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By Tracy Ledger Abstract Local government is central to the delivery of the state’s developmental agenda, but many municipalities record poor financial management and operational outcomes. Mainstream explanations of these...
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By Thokozani Chilenga-Butao Abstract Democratic decentralisation was introduced in South Africa during the transition to democracy (1990-1994). It followed a long trajectory of centralisation and decentralisation processes that took place...
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By Mosa Phadi and Peter Vale The rise of African liberation parties to power in the 1960s brought to the fore ‘questions about the role and position of the African...
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THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BILL NEEDS BETTER ENFORCEMENT: A SUGGESTED PROVISION TO EMPOWER AND INCENTIVISE WHISTLE-BLOWERS Jonathan Klaaren, Ryan Brunette Abstract Among other reforms, South African public procurement law needs...
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By Joel Pearson ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the flows of official paperwork in the troubled Mogalakwena Local Municipality in the Waterberg District of Limpopo Province from 2009 to...
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By Ryan Brunette, Jonathan Klaaren and Patronella Nqaba As South Africa contemplates another episode of public procurement legal reform, we trace the post-apartheid history of such efforts and consider critical...
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By Sarah Meny-Gibert In this article I explore the authority of the state (and its “infrastructural power”) in school education in the Eastern Cape bantustans during and after “homeland”...
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