Image: ID 436402424 © Ala Skazava | Dreamstime.com By Tracy Ledger [First published in Sunday Times] Excess power to be sold to crypto miners instead of helping poor households,...
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Policy Brief | Watch While It Happens: Three interventions for civic oversight of public procurement
By Baone Twala This policy brief makes proposals for enabling greater civil society oversight of public procurement in South Africa. Conventional oversight arrives late, as shown by irregularities surfaced in...
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An animation from our State Reform programme about real-time citizen participation in public procurement oversight. Based on a position paper by PARI: Observe Record Report Find it here: https://pari.org.za/position-paper-observe-record-report-real-time-citizen-engagement-with-public-procurement-in-sa/ Produced...
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How water and electricity shape women's livelihoods in South African townships By Nonhlanhla Mathibela This research seeks to highlight the importance of gender- and domestic-conscious service delivery that recognises the...
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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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Press Statement: The Public Service Commission Act 23 Sept 2026 The recent testimony of Professor Fikeni, PSC Chair, at the Madlanga Commission, underscores the centrality of the integrity, systems and...
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The Municipal Capability & Partnership Programme (MCPP) is a structured, long-term partnership between Anglo American, Kumba Iron Ore, De Beers, the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) and the Council for...
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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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