Publications

A home-grown analysis of the media landscape in Africa: SOUTH AFRICA 2021

Understanding the political assumptions, ideologies and strategies that underpin government initiatives for employment creation in Sub-Saharan Africa…

Public spending on public transport in Gauteng has not greatly improved use of or access to busses and trains, or facilitated formalisation of the…

Elections do not play out in isolation. In this context MISTRA’s report on the local government elections of 2021 goes beyond the historic event of 1…

As a social security measure, the BIG is a necessary means to enhance income security for all through

the redistribution of wealth generated by all.

Failures of inclusive development in South Africa. Policy brief 3 by Lisa Thompson and Hazel Shirinda July 2021

Geopolitical & economic drivers of the Musina-Makhado SEZ (MMSEZ). Policy brief by Lisa Thompson and Hazel Shirinda July 2021

This book builds on a series of expert discussions and can be viewed as three concentric circles. Based on an analysis of these three concentric…

Civil society perspectives from Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Morocco and the Philippines

African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy Policy Paper #2/2 on South Africa’s Special Economic Zones in Global Socio-Economic Context November…

ACCEDE POLICY WORKING PAPER NO.1 Adverse international and local conditions for South Africa’s Special Economic Zones

South Africa’s Special Economic…

A Youth Mandate to Political Parties.

The University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) co-hosted two…

Just energy transition: community ownership, jobs and the furture of the renewable energy systems.

Solutions to the hunger crisis in South Africa have failed us, particularly those emanating from the market or the government. It is for this reason…

The National Minimum Wage Research Initiative (NMW-RI) is an independent academic research project run by the Corporate Strategy and Industrial…

In South Africa there are numerous instances of failed accountability and regulatory systems, which have implications for the deepening of democracy.…

Fiscal Histories of Sub-Saharan Africa is a Working Papers series produced by the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), with the aim of…

The history of taxation in South Africa was shaped by the complex relations between the native Africans and colonial settlers. Drawing on the…

Mining and Rural Struggles in Mokopane, Limpopo

The Politics of the Bapo/Lonmin Royalty-to-Equity Conversion.

Electing Councillors - A guide to municipal elections