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The aftermath of a 2021 fire disaster in an abandoned building in central Johannesburg. Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images

September 8, 2023

Johannesburg fire: there was a plan to fix derelict buildings and provide good accommodation - how to move forward

Marie Huchzermeyer, University of the Witwatersrand; Amira Osman, Tshwane University of Technology; Hannah le Roux, University of the Witwatersrand; Margot Rubin, Cardiff University; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, University of the Witwatersrand; Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane, University of the Witwatersrand; Neil Klug, University of the Witwatersrand; Philip Harrison, University of the Witwatersrand; Priscila Izar, University of the Witwatersrand; Sarah Charlton, University of the Witwatersrand; Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, University of the Witwatersrand, and Tanya Zack, University of the Witwatersrand

Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.

Access to clean water is a major issue in Nigeria. Getty Images

July 10, 2023

Nearly a third of Nigerians don’t have access to a basic supply of water. This is partly because of loopholes in a law

Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, University of Nigeria; Chikodiri Nwangwu, University of Nigeria, and Kelechi Elijah Nnamani, University of Nigeria

Nigerians lack access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities despite investment in these areas. Procurement law contributes to this inadvertently.

The $1 trillion bill was a heavy lift for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (center). Next up: the budget reconciliation bill known as Build Back Better. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

November 6, 2021

Congress passes $1T infrastructure bill – but how does the government go about spending that much money?

Ana Maria Dimand, Boise State University

The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals.

Election posters on street poles in Cape Town. The top one in Afrikaans says ‘Cape Town Works. Let’s do more’. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma

October 28, 2021

South Africa’s local elections: new entrants likely to be the big winners

Mcebisi Ndletyana, University of Johannesburg

The increased and diverse number of contestants shows a citizenry that is unwilling to leave its fate in the hands of ineffective incumbents.

There’s much that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government has yet to explain to South Africans about the COVID-19 vaccine procurement. Getty Images

March 3, 2021

What South Africans should know, but don’t, about government’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement

Professor Geo Quinot, Stellenbosch University

South Africa’s constitutional values of good public governance and transparency in public procurement have been sacrificed in the process of buying COVID-19 vaccines.

January 15, 2021

Carillion: move to disqualify directors signals UK authorities getting tougher on ‘corporate wrongdoing’

John Tribe, University of Liverpool

Eight former directors of the collapsed super-contractor face being banned for up to 15 years if they are found to be unfit to run a company.

Bosasa’s former chief operations officer Angelo Agrizzi is co-accused in a case of corruption relating to government tenders. Getty Images

November 1, 2020

South Africa’s draft procurement bill falls short of what’s required to fight corruption

Zukiswa Kota, Rhodes University and Nimi Hoffmann, University of Sussex

The draft public procurement bill makes room for confidentiality without defining it and limiting its use to narrow circumstances. This leaves the door wide open to abuse.

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