Analysis
Who will be our next Public Protector? Here are the candidates
At least one may face conflicts of interest, a Corruption Watch study shows
By Kirsten Pearson and Kavisha Pillay
Analysis | 28 July 2023
How will next year’s elections work? It’s confusing
The Electoral Amendment Bill has serious flaws
Analysis | 30 March 2023
Will a State of Disaster fix the electricity crisis? An engineer weighs in
There are good reasons to be sceptical
Analysis | 10 February 2023
Social housing in South Africa is in trouble - here’s why
Rising costs and stagnant grants imperil the only government-backed effort to undo apartheid spatial planning
Analysis | 10 February 2023
Youth organisation scored big time from Lottery amendment for which it lobbied
Southern African Youth Movement picked up millions, thanks to the introduction of a new kind of funding
Analysis | 23 January 2023
Understanding Eskom’s high failure rate
Researchers have identified the underlying causes
Analysis | 8 December 2022
GroundUp sued by Iqbal Survé … but for only R5-million
Independent Newspapers has a litigation fixation
Analysis | 20 October 2022
These graphs show PRASA’s disastrous state
No trains, no hope? We show just how bad things are at PRASA.
By James Stent
Analysis | 21 September 2022
Debunking the myth that Africa responded well to Covid
We should not let governments that failed to even count their dead off the hook
By Nathan Geffen and Francois Venter
Analysis | 5 September 2022