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How to get government services to step up their game

by Reader Blog 28 April 20169 May 2016

By Trevor Watkins Everyone knows we have a great Constitution. Hardly anyone knows what it contains, particularly most “civil” servants. How could this be changed? Most people are really only interested in things that affect them directly – saving money, saving time, cool things, interesting experiences. Tell them that Teazers can stay open because it […]

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The slow and steady drift of Nala to nada

by William Saunderson-Meyer 22 September 20122 October 2012

Nala is the Sesotho word for prosperity. It is also the sad choice of name for what is now officially South Africa’s most spectacularly failed municipality, the first to have the National Treasury switch off budgetary life support. The state pulling the plug on annual transfers in excess of R200 million was an act of […]

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Gender Commission finally has commissioners but battles are not over yet

by Christi van der Westhuizen 5 June 2012

It is a no-brainer that a commission without commissioners ceases to operate. But, by the second half of May, the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) had only two commissioners left, with terms expiring before June 7. So it was déjà vu at the CGE: in 2006-2007, the CGE had no commissioners, for which the blame […]

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