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Winnie Ngwekasi Primary School in Soweto, South Africa. Public schools have been under pressure since this picture was taken in 2009. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images

South Africa’s public service: real spending is falling, but demand is growing

Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand; Arabo K. Ewinyu, University of the Witwatersrand, and Olwethu Shedi

The real value of basic education and criminal justice services in South Africa has fallen over the past decade. Healthcare budgets too have been under increasing pressure.
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa: His party’s 2022 elective conference and the country’s 2024 national elections will define political choices. Getty Images

South Africa faces a slowly worsening chronic fiscal crisis

Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand

National Treasury’s strategy to overcome South Africa’s chronic fiscal crisis rests on highly uncertain political and economic foundations.
South Africans practise social distancing while they queue outside a supermarket in Hillbrow, Johannesburg during the country’s lockdown. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

South Africa needs a post‑lockdown strategy that emulates South Korea

Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand; David Campbell Francis, University of the Witwatersrand; Francois Venter, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand; Lucy Allais, University of the Witwatersrand; Martin Veller, University of the Witwatersrand; Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand, and Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa cannot afford to embark on a strategy of extended periodic lockdowns. It needs to shift to mass testing and contact tracing.
An elderly man at a social grant paypoint in South Africa after the COVID-19 lockdown. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) () Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here’s a blueprint for its replacement

Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand; Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand; David Campbell Francis, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand; Martin Veller, University of the Witwatersrand, and Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa must develop a comprehensive health and economic strategy if it is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic without causing long term socio-economic damage.

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