HeyJaredAnn Bernstein
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- Sep 29, 2026
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ANN BERNSTEIN | Transparent recruitment crucial for Joburg’s revival (opens the original)
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When President Cyril Ramaphosa came to power in February 2018 I was asked a question in New York by a successful businessman. I assume, he said, that the new president has identified the mission-critical jobs across national government ― 200 positions on which any genuine renewal would depend ― and that he knows who he wants to put in them? Obviously, I don’t know if Ramaphosa did this or not. However, my suspicion at the time, confirmed by subsequent developments, is that the president’s usual
ANN BERNSTEIN | Can Joburg be fixed before national decline sets in? (opens the original)
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As municipal systems deteriorate access to basic services in Johannesburg increasingly depends on private resources rather than public provision. Households and businesses with sufficient means mitigate the risk of failure by paying for private security, solar power, boreholes and water storage systems — on top of the rates and taxes meant to buy precisely those things. Small firms, households and individuals without such resources remain fully exposed to the city’s dismal failure. Meanwhile, th
ANN BERNSTEIN | Procurement reforms risk making the state less effective (opens the original)
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There is no authoritative estimate of the value of goods and services procured by government departments and state-owned entities from the private sector each year, but it is considerably more than R500bn. And yet, South Africa’s public procurement system is one of the country’s great institutional weaknesses. Service delivery failures, though driven by bad policies, are amplified by a procurement system that sometimes cannot buy the goods, services and infrastructure government needs. Even when
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