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Cape Town came to the brink of “Day Zero” in 2018, resulting in the city becoming a global case study for emergency water saving as residents had to cut back on their consumption drastically. A pivotal study found that average households in freestanding homes reduced water use from about 183

Picture this: it is a Monday morning in Soweto. Thandi, a domestic worker wakes up at 5 am so she cancatch a taxi to Sandton, about 40 km away. She’s already budgeting for the rand with increased food costsand clothes for their young children. The driver announces the fare has

Introduction Public budgets are often presented as neutral instruments designed to allocate resources efficiently across sectors and populations. practice, however, fiscal decisions operate within deeply embedded social and economic structures, producing differentiated outcomes for women and men. Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) has emerged as an approach that seeks to better understand

I was not able to listen to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in real time as I was attending to other matters. At the first opportunity I took time to listen to the President and my ears were primed to listen out to what he would say concerning

Last year, I attended a Consumer Financial Education (CFE) workshop, to observe the session as part of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) services that my company provides on the programme. During the session, the facilitator mentioned that the previous week had been National Wills week in South Africa. Out of

Recently I listened to a podcast/TED Talk on YouTube by Sir Ken Robinson titled “Do schools kill creativity?” Interesting topic – outside of my passion for all things education and especially foundation phase education (as a mother to a 7-year-old). For context: a school is a system with a variety

Around September last year, I, together with what felt like thousands of South Africans, congregated to the Kyalami Grand Prix for the annual perfume sale. At this point this feels like a pilgrimage of sorts. At the Grand Prix, as per the norm, scores of vehicles AND people. Still, nothing unusual there. And

This summer in Gauteng has been unsettling. Not because it has rained, summer rain is normal, but because of how it has rained. Heavier downpours, more frequent storms, and a sense that the timing and intensity are no longer lining up with what our cities and systems were built for.

South Africa’s road network is mostly gravel, meaning that it is mostly unsurfaced/unpaved roads made up of gravel and fine gradients, like silt or clay. It is also, undeniably, in poor condition. The country’s road network is 750,000km long, but only about 21.08% of the road network is paved, while