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If public administration education is designed and delivered poorly, it sets a course for the systematic destruction of state capability.

This article will be released in full online October 16, 2023. There is a growing sense in China, Alex Witherspoon, Amir Khan, and Yu Zhou write…

South Africa needs a new social contract whose core aim is the creation of dynamic economy.

New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI/PRNewswire): Maya, Modi, Azad is significant for understanding not just Dalit but democratic politics in India as it heads into what is likely to be a deeply divisive general election in 2024.

Getting local government on track will mean reversing some ideological imperatives that are central to the outlook of the ANC. This includes the complete abrogation of the politicisation of administrations – ‘cadre deployment’ – and their professionalisation.

Images supplied by the National Treasury speak magnitudes on the disaster of Transnet - straight from Budget 2023.

I wish to take this opportunity to welcome you all to this first Provincial Government Lekgotla of 2023 starting today, the 16th of February 2023. We are approaching 30 years of democracy which will be celebrated in the year of 2024. The purpose of the Provincial Lekgotla as we are gathered here, is to plan forward to the coming financial year, but also to look back at the road travelled. The year 2023 presents itself as one of the most historic in our province, because it is effectively the las...

Lenin, unlike our union leadership and some Cabinet ministers, understood the power of science and technology, as did Stalin in the early years of crash industrialisation when the Soviet Union pursued joint ventures with foreign capital.

State electricity monopoly Eskom has said that it has run out of money to buy diesel for critical back-up power plants.

2 November 2022 - One of the reasons South African growth prospects are so dismal is our pitiful level of new investment.