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Land Justice: Rethinking Communal Land Administration

Land Justice: Rethinking Communal Land Administration Communal land administration represents a foundational, yet underperforming component of South Africa’s land reform agenda. It has significant implications for tenure security, rural development,...

Humble Governance: A Practical Pathway to Ethical Leadership in South Africa

Humble Governance: A Practical Pathway to Ethical Leadership in South Africa South Africa today is seized with the project of State Reform. The NCOP recently called for submissions on the...

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S DESK: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WOMEN IN DIPLOMACY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S DESK: International Day of Women in Diplomacy Today, on the United Nations International Day of Women in Diplomacy, Afesis stands in solidarity and celebrates the invaluable contribution of...

Disaster preparedness of municipalities in the face of Coronavirus

South Africa is declared a national state of disaster. New cases of the coronavirus are being reported daily throughout the world and South Africa is no exception. The number of...

Daily Dispatch Opinion piece: No fix for wards in current format

In the Daily Dispatch 25 April 2018 edition, our Executive Director, Nontando Ngamlana responded to the Daily Dispatch April 13 article titled  “Ward system not working - poor education hampers...

Deepening Participatory Local Governance

The murkiness of today’s politics demands that citizens establish organs through which they will exercise power. Ward committees were conceptualized as organs for people’s power, but it has been proven...