Joburg Urban Crisis Seminar on 18 May 1-3pm Civil society engagement with local government: Yeoville Bellevue Civic Movement by Nomsa Mbatha Register to join in person: forms.gle/4iewADQWnHwfd7Sv5 Or to attend online: pari.zoom.us/meeting/registe…

The Civil Society Working Group has released a media statement: Civil Society calls for urgent government action on NACAC anti-corruption proposals pari.org.za/cswg-civil-socie…

Op Ed | Death of cadre deploy­ment is grossly exag­ger­ated — but can still hap­pen by Sarah Meny-Gibert and Ryan Brunette Pub­lic ser­vice legis­la­tion doesn’t usu­ally make head­lines, but the recent passing of amend­ments to the Pub­lic Ser­vice Act has garnered a lot of atten­tion. For good reason: the act makes some sig­ni­fic­ant changes. Offi­cials in the top tier of the pub­lic ser­vice can no longer hold office in a polit­ical party (as chair­per­son or sec­ret­ary, for example). More sig­ni­fic­antly, heads of depart­ment (national dir­ect­ors-gen­eral and pro­vin­cial heads of depart­ment) are now respons­ible for recruit­ment and other human resource mat­ters in their depart­ments. This author­ity was pre­vi­ously ves­ted in the exec­ut­ive (min­is­ters and MECs). These amend­ments aren’t the “end to cadre deploy­ment” they’ve been touted as, but they are import­ant reforms. Read the full op-ed here:

PARI researchers attended a Civil Society Working Group on State Capture (CSWG) workshop to debate proposals contained in the NACAC Report.

If it’s any consolation, neither Mkhabela, Mashele or Sithembile Mbete, executive director of the Public Affairs Research Institute, see the GNU imploding before December 2027, though that’s not to say it won’t be tested by the local government elections in November. Unsurprisingly, Mbete predicted “a lot more” coalition arrangements – but said that partnerships struck at local level could be vastly different across provinces, like the DA working with the IFP and ANC in KwaZulu-Natal but not in Gauteng. The biggest problem, she said, is that the GNU has still not been able to pass a new act that would introduce a 1% electoral threshold in order to get into council. This, if passed, would limit the number of very small parties acting as kingmakers – as they have done to great and ruinous effect in the City of Joburg. currencynews.co.za/a-post-gn…

The COMPACT Local Government Collaboration Model is a practical tool bringing together political, administrative & community stakeholders to address real challenges & work together on improving service delivery. The model offers guidance on 'the how' of municipal collaboration.

COMPACT has developed a user-friendly guide & roadmap poster setting out the phases of the municipal integrated development planning (IDP) process and showing how communities can participate. Download the resources here: pari.org.za/toolbox/faqs/int… @PARInstitute @SALGA_Gov

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A case study on the development and piloting of the index is available, together with the Microsoft Excel template & an annexure of the index with all references to legislation and policy. Download all the documents here: pari.org.za/.../faqs/communi…

The COMPACT Community Participation Index is a developmental tool to help officials, councillors, ward committees, CSOs/CBOs & communities better measure community participation. The purpose of the index is to deepen participatory democracy @SALGA_Gov @PARInstitute

Find the Guide for local government at pari.org.za/land-and-the-jus… @SALGA_Gov @IIED

At this week’s JHB Urban Crisis Seminar, Luyanda Hlatshwayo reflected on the work of the African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO), a mass democratic movement of reclaimers organising to protect livelihoods, challenge stigma, and reshape how waste is governed. Emerging in response to attempts to privatise recycling collection in Johannesburg, ARO has built alternative systems rooted in direct partnerships with residents and reclaimers themselves. Discussant Melanie Samson highlighted how reclaimers recover the vast majority of recyclable packaging waste while saving municipalities millions annually, despite facing ongoing criminalisation and exclusion. The discussion raised important questions about labour, recognition, and what meaningful inclusion from government might look like. pari.org.za/pari-urban-crisi…

The final episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is now out on all major podcasting platforms. Episode 10: The final episode of the series reveals that the challenge of the Just Transition is not simply about how South Africa moves away from coal, but whether the country can use this moment to confront forms of injustice that already exist within the system itself. Because if those inequalities remain unresolved they risk being reproduced inside a new green economy. Host: @TasneemEssop_ (@SWOPinstitute) Guests: @drtracyledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI Dr @GaynorParadza , Land Governance Programme Lead, PARI Dr Thokozani Chilenga-Butao, Researcher, PARI Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI Produced by: Richard Rumney #JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast

The final episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is now out on all major podcasting platforms. Episode 10: The final episode of the series reveals that the challenge of the Just Transition is not simply about how South Africa moves away from coal, but whether the country can use this moment to confront forms of injustice that already exist within the system itself. Because if those inequalities remain unresolved they risk being reproduced inside a new green economy. Host: @TasneemEssop_ (@SWOPinstitute) Guests: @drtracyledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI Dr @GaynorParadza , Land Governance Programme Lead, PARI Dr Thokozani Chilenga-Butao, Researcher, PARI Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI Produced by: Richard Rumney #JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast

The final episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is now out on all major podcasting platforms. Episode 10: The final episode of the series reveals that the challenge of the Just Transition is not simply about how South Africa moves away from coal, but whether the country can use this moment to confront forms of injustice that already exist within the system itself. Because if those inequalities remain unresolved they risk being reproduced inside a new green economy. Host: @TasneemEssop_ (@SWOPinstitute) Guests: @drtracyledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI Dr @GaynorParadza , Land Governance Programme Lead, PARI Dr Thokozani Chilenga-Butao, Researcher, PARI Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI Produced by: Richard Rumney #JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast

The final episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out tomorrow, the 13th of May on all major podcasting platforms. Episode 10: The final episode of the series reveals that the challenge of the Just Transition is not simply about how South Africa moves away from coal, but whether the country can use this moment to confront forms of injustice that already exist within the system itself. Because if those inequalities remain unresolved they risk being reproduced inside a new green economy. Host: @TasneemEssop_ (@SWOPinstitute) Guests: @drtracyledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI Dr @GaynorParadza , Land Governance Programme Lead, PARI Dr Thokozani Chilenga-Butao, Researcher, PARI Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI #JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast