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Gumani Tshimomola

Gumani Tshimomola, a doctoral student at Wits University focusing on the role of the Treasury in SA’s political economy, is the EFF senior researcher in parliament

The R28.1 million was for the city to service the stands, whereafter eThekwini would sell the land to private companies that would build houses. (File photo)

Municipalities must entrench poverty and inequality for treasury’s fiscal framework to work

Maintaining austerity is reckless and risks plunging the country into a worse social and economic crisis than the unrest of July 2021

  • Gumani Tshimomola
9 min read
What appears to citizens as poor service delivery is often the visible result of deeper institutional weaknesses. (David Harrison)
DATA

Hollowing of skills and defunding of Stats SA works for a failing state

Perhaps the government does want us to know how bad things really are

  • Gumani Tshimomola
5 min read
These workers could see double-digit increases in their minimum wage
DOMESTIC WORKERS

A minimum wage must restore the dignity of black people

We must address the legacy of apartheid and abolish the slave wage economy we have inherited.

  • Gumani Tshimomola
5 min read
PROCUREMENT

Modernising the government’s procurement system needs to address service delivery

It is about time that the government looked at its core functions and built strong internal capacity to fulfil those functions.

  • Gumani Tshimomola
5 min read
BUDGET 2016

More of the same budget talk takes SA economy nowhere

Pravin Gordhan has tried to please everyone, but SA needs an overhaul of macroeconomic policy and state restructuring, writes Gumani Tshimomola.

  • Gumani Tshimomola
3 min read
The current sense of malaise
PROCUREMENT

Decentralised procurement fails the state

The problem facing government departments is not simply an issue of poor leadership or unskilled officials; it is structural.

  • Gumani Tshimomola
  • Ryan Brunette
  • Ivor Chipkin
8 min read