Makana Municipality

Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services

Civil society cannot solve the country’s literacy crisis on its own, because the scale is too vast and the resources required too substantial

Since 2020, the Eastern Cape Department of Education has retained about R5 billion from the budgets of its poorest schools, ostensibly for “centralised procurement”. Some of that…

The global order of years of diplomacy and peacebuilding can be flipped over by the cynical or power-hungry

Instead of replacing state capacity with grassroots action, we need to strengthen state institutions to serve the poor

The Makana Citizens Front brings together diverse groups with a focus on accountability

Despite fighting so hard for it, South Africans don’t seem to understand how democracy works

The SACP is not building socialism, or even social democracy. Sadly, it has become just another party advancing the politics of patronage

Citizen action, where diverse groups work together, offers hope that municipalities can be forced to do their job properly

This year’s National Arts Festival is going ahead despite the drought that is plaguing Makhanda