Where to for Provincial Education?

South Africa’s provincial education departments have been reduced to provincial administrations, for reasons that include the powerful role national government plays in delivering education services. This book from Idasa looks in detail at education spending and asks: Can we afford to maintain administrations that cannot possibly change the course of poor quality education and engineer [...]

AIDS in Africa – the political cost

See the presentations made by Idasa staff at the international AIDS conference in Vienna on 18 July here. Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) director Kondwani Chirambo, manager Marietjie Oelofsen, and unit heads Phoebe Machere, Vailet Kowayi and Jaqueline Nzisabira looked at the state of leadership, state budgets and the challenges people living with AIDS face [...]

Where Does Our Money Go?

Where does our money go? Idasa looks at priority and progress in South Africa’s health budgetWhere does our money go? Idasa looks at priority and progress in South Africa’s health budget and finds that, given South Africa’s poor health status, its continued failure to its commitment to dedicate 15% of the annual budget to health [...]

Eskom – we need a public conversation

By Richard Calland and Gary Pienaar Picking holes in the governance of electricity supply, and energy policy more generally, is like shooting fish in a barrel. Whether it is the development and sequencing of key policy documents, the absence of proper stakeholder consultation, leadership failure, or the lack of clarity about intragovernmental roles and responsibilities, [...]