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South Africa’s civil service has failed to implement policies to eradicate poverty, inequality and unemployment.
If public administration education is designed and delivered poorly, it sets a course for the systematic destruction of state capability.
South Africa needs a new social contract whose core aim is the creation of dynamic economy.
Ramaphosa currently has no known rivals with widespread support within the African National Congress.
In his new book, Nigeria Democracy Without Development: How To Fix It, international political economist Omano Edigheji explains why democracy has not led to development in Nigeria.
In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
The problem in municipalities is not that the wrong people are being chosen. It is that the wrong people are doing the choosing – not only of candidates but of what they do if elected.
The stalemate in Tshwane is a manifestation of coalition arrangements that serve the partisan interests of parties, to the detriment of citizens.
South Africans may well be seduced by the prospect of Zuma appearing at the Zondo commission, but he was not alone in driving the state capture project.
The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
Initiatives to boost South Africa’s economy could reinforce structural weaknesses without addressing the high levels of inequality.
Both the state of the nation address and budget speech didn’t leave a sense that there has been much reflection on the depth of the economic malaise gripping South Africa.
South Africa’s parastatals are in a dire state. Instead of being the mandated sites of development and profitability, they are costing the public purse billions and have been abused.
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Head: Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria
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SA UK Bilateral Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Johns Hopkins University
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Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
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Director: Center for Public Policy and African Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Practice, North-West University
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy and International Development, Leiden University
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Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape