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- Sep 30, 2026
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KHAYA SITHOLE | Consultation flaws at heart of procurement act ruling (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago the Constitutional Court declared the Public Procurement Act of 2024 illegal and invalid. The stated purpose of the act ― to introduce uniformity and consistency across the procurement landscape, where many laws and regulations presently prevail ― sounds sensible enough when one considers the scale of procurement undertaken by state agencies on an ongoing basis. The starting point ― section 217 of the constitution ― envisages a procurement system that subscribes to an ambitious pen
KHAYA SITHOLE | Too few taxpayers, too many jobless —the service delivery crisis (opens the original)
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The latest employment data published by Stats SA reflected an unfortunate increase in the unemployment rate from 32.7% to 33.6%, which is painful but not surprising. It is merely a reflection of the state’s inability to find a solution to the crisis, which is really a crisis of access, affordability and truancy in relation to basic services. In the Stats SA data, the national population is stratified into the working-age population of 15-64 years; and everyone else. It is from this working-age p
KHAYA SITHOLE | Municipalities scramble to fix finances after payment freeze (opens the original)
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Over the past few weeks an unexpected illustration of soft power has been exercised by finance minister Enoch Godongwana. In April the minister delivered a letter to Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero threatening to withhold the July instalment of the city’s equitable share grant. The basis for the threat was the dire state of the city’s finances, which the minister believed were still headed in the wrong direction. A city whose historic billing and debt management chaos had left it unable to effect
KHAYA SITHOLE | The PIC demands governance it does not practise (opens the original)
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In the world of asset management, there is no endorsement more coveted than a mandate from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). As the asset manager with more than R3-trillion to invest, the PIC is the bedrock of the asset management ecosystem and has, over many years, operated as a lifeline for some businesses seeking to gain a foothold in the market. To be granted a mandate from the PIC is not easy for obvious reasons. Since so many potential players can approach the PIC, it has to impleme
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