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HSF Briefs

Alternative Proposals For Electing Constituency Representatives In A Mixed System
Author: Charles Simkins
Published: 09 Mar 2021
This brief considers three proposals on the table for a mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system for consideration by the National Assembly’s Home Affairs Portfolio Committee, and makes the point that advocacy of an MMP system does not, in itself, settle all the details which will needed to be considered in the process of electoral reform.
Economy Briefs Covid-19 Governance Securing Accountability
The Public Sector Wage Dispute: Understanding the judgment of the Labour Appeal Court
Author: Catherine Kruyer
Published: 26 Feb 2021
This brief considers and evaluates the reasoning of the Labour Appeal Court in the public sector wage dispute and considers the implications of its judgment, in light of the approach adopted by Treasury in the 2021 Budget.
Economy Briefs Social Justice Governance Transformation Securing Accountability
Issuing additional short-term government bonds to increase funding for COVID-19 Relief
Author: Charles Collocott
Published: 11 Feb 2021
In a follow up to a brief published in May 2020 on the same topic, this brief explores the possibility of allocating to buyers the full amount of short-term, lower-yielding government bonds for which they bid, and how the availability of this funding option differs with changing circumstances.
Economy Covid-19 Briefs
Third Quarter Production And Employment Statistics - Some Puzzles
Author: Charles Simkins
Published: 14 Jan 2021
This is the final Brief in the series with all the statistical information about production and employment in the third quarter having now been published. This Brief focuses on puzzles which arise when all the sources are considered together.
Economy Briefs Covid-19 Governance Securing Accountability
The Era of Pandemics: Tomorrow's Forever Wars
Author: Matthew Kruger
Published: 09 Dec 2020
We are now more than 250 days into our 21-day lockdown, with Ramaphosa and his Command Council claiming for themselves the power to legislate every aspect of our lives until the invisible enemy is beaten, or maybe even longer, as their rhetoric about the new normal suggests. In asserting this power in their war on the virus, they resemble another executive in a different, still-ongoing war against an equally invisible enemy: the US war on terror.
Economy Briefs Covid-19 Governance Securing Accountability