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FreeFACTS - November 2021

26 November 2021 - This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the local government election held on 1 November. It looks at the overall results and the state of the ...

A strategic report by the Centre for Risk Analysis at the IRR on how the leadership race in the African National Congress (ANC) is likely to conclude and what ...

Executive Chaos - Discontinuity in the National Executive: 2009-2018

18 October 2018 - The scale of South Africa’s discontinuity in executive leadership is undoubtedly one of the biggest contributing factors to the ANC’s failure ...

Public Administration: Reward Skills, Deliver for Citizens

'#WhatSACanBe: 100 days to get SA back on track' is a series of nine short papers each focusing on a key policy area. Taken together, these papers offer a ...

A Question of Fate: An ANC-EFF coalition in 2024?

The prospect of the ANC losing its majority has caused a riot of speculation about what a post-election government might look like. Will the ANC be able to ...

Growth prospects of the Democratic Alliance manifesto

There is a singular overarching goal that any post-election public policy must achieve: vigorous economic growth. The success of everything else, from reducing ...

SA must guard against provincial decoupling | FreeFACTS - October 2024

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the differences in economic growth rates between provinces and warns against provincial decoupling.

Pro-Growth or Pro-Poverty: Findings of IRR Polling 2025 | Report 1: The Political State of Play as of April 2025

Recent polling by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), conducted in March/April 2025, reveals shifting voter sentiment amid debates over a ...

FreeFACTS - July 2023

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at regional disparities in South Africa. It shows differences between the country’s various provinces and argues that ...