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HSF Briefs

The need to come up with a better plan for TVET colleges
Author: Anele Mtwesi
Published: 24 Mar 2017
TVET colleges ought to be an integral part of post-schooling in South Africa. This brief explores the current status of these colleges and the environment they operate in.
Education Briefs
America’s War on Terror in Africa
Author: Rafael Friedman
Published: 23 Mar 2017
The growth of America's Global War on Terror has raised a number of questions for the African continent. Including the scope of American involvement and the impact that it has, and is likely to have, on counter-terror efforts in Africa. Rafael Friedman explores these in this brief.
Briefs International
Do state-owned enterprises pose a threat to Government’s finances?
Author: Charles Collocott
Published: 09 Mar 2017
As a result of the publicity which several state-owned enterprises have enjoyed recently, especially from a governance and finance perspective, the logical question is to what degree they pose a real danger to the health of the State’s finances. This brief by Charles Collocott is based on the detailed Budget Review, as published by National Treasury on the date of the budget speech on 22 February 2017.
Briefs Governance
The Government’s nuclear power plans: is a rational debate possible?
Author: Anton van Dalsen
Published: 16 Feb 2017
This brief follows other recent pieces which we have published on the issue of nuclear power in South Africa (see our briefs dated 18 November 2016 and 15 December 2016). It provides an update to the debate surrounding Government plans for new nuclear power, highlighting two issues that continue to crop up in the public debate and which can be confusing without the necessary background. It also provides the essential facts relating to the court application by Earthlife Africa and the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute, set down for hearing in the High Court on 22 February 2017.
Energy Briefs
ACSA cleans up its act but is Government interfering?
Author: Anton van Dalsen
Published: 16 Feb 2017
This brief sketches the background to attempts by the ACSA Board to address alleged fraud and corruption - and in reaction, the Minister of Transport attempts to fire almost half the Board.
Briefs Governance
SOCIAL GRANTS AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC
Author: Charles Simkins
Published: 16 Feb 2017
This brief looks at the importance of social grants in sustaining the social fabric.
Briefs Social Justice