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The local government elections will take place on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
BILL OF RIGHTS

The albatross of municipal finances hangs around local government’s neck

Their collection capacity is constrained and they have to deliver bulk services. Solutions would be to create a single local government revenue collection agency and some form of…

  • Subesh Pillay
7 min read
The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File
COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH ACTION PLAN

In an unequal world, mental health must be redefined

Reducing socioeconomic inequalities and improving mental health are twin goals that cannot be separated; we must demand better from government, while also taking collective…

  • Suntosh R Pillay
6 min read