South Africa

South Africa’s electricity crisis: a series of failures over 30 years have left a dim legacy

Just two years after apartheid ended, the ANC government discarded the Reconstruction and Development Programme in favour of a new macroeconomic policy: the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) policy, which was based on a set of neoliberal assumptions about a limited role for the state. Two years after that, a new White Paper ...

By Professor Mark Swilling about 18 hours ago

South Africa’s Constitutional Court at 30: a solid foundation but cracks are showing

The Constitutional Court succeeded beyond expectations in establishing its political and public legitimacy in its first 15 years since it was founded in 1994. But the second half of the democratic era has been a mixed bag.

By Professor Hugh Corder - University of Cape Town 4 days ago

Portfolio Committee on Higher Education notes dissolution of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) Board

The committee has noted that employees who have failed to do their jobs have not faced consequences for this failure. The Auditor-General has also raised concerns regarding NSFAS’s over-reliance on consultants, which indicates that the workforce is not skilled enough to perform the work or there are serious capacity challenges within t...

By RSA Parliament 7 days ago

Another feather in Captain Fantastic Mntambo’s cap

Figo, as the Sowetan is fondly known, is one of the tenacious footballers in the country with an amazing work ethic. A social media darling, the jovial player usually documents his training sessions on Instagram in a quest to inspire hard work in his followers.

By Hosea Ramphekwa 10 days ago

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