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South Africa will introduce the carbon tax which should be used to ensure benefits to poor communities.
Unlike India’s, South Africa’s business process outsourcing sector is not generating jobs that offer workers the chance of progressing up the career ladder.
With the current state of the South African economy and public finances, the Parliamentary Budget Office could play a major role in ensuring that this happens. But the office is in complete disarray
South Africa’s embrace of international conventions has buttressed the country’s reputation in statistical circles. But these global standards prove a poor fit for the country.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has revived a presidential advisory unit shut down by his predecessor. He needs it if he is to use his power effectively to improve his government’s policy coherence.
In matters of policy-making and governing, understanding the systemic complexity of interrelated forces is crucial to avoiding failure.
The black middle class are angry at their exclusion from mainstream economic activity.
Wealth inequality in South Africa is not only intolerably high, its also not reducing.
Some entrepreneurship support models work better than others. Governance and structure is key to their success, or failure.
Kenya’s once financially healthy universities are in financial straits.
To claim that protests are being organised suggests sinister motives. But all protest is organised. So are cake sales and shopping expeditions.
Half of South Africa’s population remain chronically poor, and the quarter in-between struggle to stay out of reach of destitution.
Violence is very common on South Africa’s various taxi routes.
Little is known about how many people transition between the informal and formal sectors, a phenomenon called “churning”.
South Africa isn’t having an honest debate about proposals to fix its power utility Eskom, and the role that renewables might play.
Land reform programme has done very little to improve access to land for black South Africans.
The availability of data and evidence in the agricultural sector is critical for decision making
Kenya needs a national strategic environmental assessment which focuses on the use of sand for large scale construction.
A national minimum wage could benefit young people who have jobs and stimulate those who have given up trying to find work. But those without work need additional help.
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Senior Research Fellow, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Fort Hare
