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Policy Brief | Watch While It Happens: Three interventions for civic oversight of public procurement

By Public Affairs Research InstitutePolicy briefs and resources, Publications, State Reform

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...

October 16, 2026

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Animation | The People’s Watchdogs

By Public Affairs Research InstituteMultimedia, Policy briefs and resources, Publications, State Reform, videos

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...

October 12, 2026

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Report | Basic Services Support Human Capabilities

By Public Affairs Research InstituteJust Transition, Publications, Reports

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...

October 11, 2026

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Op Ed | Second Shot: Getting public procurement right

By Public Affairs Research InstituteNews, Op Ed, Publications, State Reform

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...

October 6, 2026

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Op Ed | Local Government and the Cost-Recovery Trap

By Public Affairs Research InstituteJust Transition, News, Op Ed, Publications

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....

October 1, 2026

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Press Statement | The Public Service Commission Act

By Public Affairs Research InstitutePress release, Publications, State Reform, Uncategorized

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...

September 23, 2026

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Report | Independent Evaluation of the Municipal Capability & Partnership Programme

By Public Affairs Research InstituteLocal Government, Publications, Reports

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...

September 9, 2026

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Op Ed | Corruption by Any Other Name — Organised crime has replaced State Capture

By Public Affairs Research InstituteNews, Op Ed, Publications, State Reform

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...

September 9, 2026

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Report | Security of Land Tenure in Southern Africa: Unregistered land rights in Namibia

By Public Affairs Research InstituteLand Governance, Publications, Reports

Land rights are the legally or socially recognised entitlements which individuals or groups access, possess, use, transfer and exercise in various ways on land and land-based natural resources. Unregistered land...

September 2, 2026

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