Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Act into law, marking one of the most significant and potentially transformative milestones for South Africa’s electricity sector....
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Governance is not only about clean audits
Clean audits are a necessary but insufficient condition for achieving governance performance. But there is more to the story than that. It is highly unlikely that audited entities will deliver value for their...
Law must evolve as politics changes
Governance and politics often go hand in hand in a delicate balancing act. Governance in its most basic form is about the allocation of resources; it’s the process of deciding who gets what, when and where. Politics is...
GGA’s new Governance Performance Index gets wide attention
Exactly how well, or not, is a municipality performing in terms of service delivery, leadership, planning and administration? Good Governance Africa (GGA) has launched a reliable tool to help you answer this question,...
How to boost municipal performance
Local government in South Africa is often seen as the primary interface between citizens and the state. Among its core constitutional functions is ensuring the provision of accessible, high-quality public services...
Governance Performance Index – South Africa 2024
South Africa’s system of local government is presently undergoing its most widespread sequence of changes since the introduction of a new system shortly after our transition to democracy. Politically, the 2021 local...
