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