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Navigating South Africa’s governance circus around the electricity crisis – Martin van Staden - Biznews

‘Government’ is a serious concept. Related theories of public utilities, the commons, and privatisation are similarly serious and nuanced. But sometimes what ...

2 November 2022 - One of the reasons South African growth prospects are so dismal is our pitiful level of new investment.

No more SOE bailouts, IRR says, as Auditor-General exposes deep financial problems

The Minister of Public Enterprises told Parliament last year that the taxpayer had forked out more than R270 billion in bailouts for state-owned entities ...

Paddi Clay: Living through Limbo in mad, bad Gauteng - Biznews

Things are crazy bad in Gauteng.

Private-public partnerships key to infrastructure turnaround – IRR

Meeting South Africa’s infrastructure goals will require a significant increase in public sector investment to at least 10% of GDP by 2030, coupled with using ...

24 February 2022 - Economist Wandile Sihlobo recently pointed out that, as 2021 progressed, “numerous reports of infrastructure destruction in the rail system ...

SA water crisis: IRR launches service delivery query platform

The collapse of water infrastructure in South Africa has now reached a crisis point and many municipalities across the country are facing “Day Zero”.

7 November 2022 - Getting SA onto a productive growth path is an existential issue for the country’s future. Central to getting this right in every official ...

South Africa’s state failure sparks self-reliance trend – Katzenellenbogen - Biznews

The signs of accelerating state failure are pretty much everywhere: from the potholes, the urban decay, crimes that are not prosecuted, the lack of security, ...

Stop this draconian measure – IRR

3 February 2021 - The government’s new Expropriation Bill is a draconian measure that must be stopped before it can be used to strip millions of South Africans ...