South Africa’s dysfuctional municipalities are characterised by very poor, or no delivery, of basic services such as refuse collection.
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South Africa’s local governments lack a clear separation of legislative and executive powers.
Inclusive innovation processes could be extremely valuable to low-income and disadvantaged communities in South Africa.
Governing parties and officials need to take note of the frustration being expressed by ordinary South Africans.
Corruption has become one of the biggest concerns for South Africans living in a province that has erupted in violence.
Cycling is a low-cost and non-polluting way to make deliveries in congested cities. Slow cyclists should be recognised as good for the economy and environment, not treated like second-class citizens.
Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane’s takeover of responsibility for tackling the Western Cape water crisis blurs party and state lines.
Metropolitan areas are key to economic prosperity of countries. But this is affected when the population grows too fast like in Uganda’s Kampala, where growth has outpaced infrastructure development.
Protests in South Africa are about more than just service delivery of basic services such as water and electricity. They reflect a wider crisis about the failure to build a more equitable society.
There’s also one that explains why you always think you’ve picked the wrong queue.
Protests in South Africa have largely been confined to black working class townships and informal settlements. Is this beginning to change?
A new study of more than 2000 Australians has found we care deeply about local councils, and overwhelmingly want governments – not private contractors – to deliver local services.
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Professor and Research Theme Leader of the Flourishing Life Research Theme, University of the Free State
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Chief Research Specialist., Human Sciences Research Council
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Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Director, Development Capable and Ethical State, Human Sciences Research Council
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Senior lecturer, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Statistics and Probability, University of Sussex
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Human Sciences Research Council
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Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) at the School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University
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Director - Higher Degree Research and Teaching, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor, UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance and UTS Centre for Local Government, University of Technology Sydney
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Design Theory and Research Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology