14 July 2023
Is #DIYAfrica the future?
There are several initiatives across sub-Saharan Africa in which citizen-driven technology is used to improve public...
09 July 2023
Using Africa’s precious civic innovation capacity to be Bee-Watcher-Watchering
The majority of the skill and capacity within the civic space, leveraging the newest technologies and methodologies, as...
01 July 2023
State failure: Why SA should move towards an entrepreneurial state
Government has failed to entrench an entrepreneurial mindset to its developmental statehood ambitions for a poverty...
17 June 2023
As the world reconfigures its political system, there will be casualties
South Africa needs to assert its sovereignty to be respected among emerging powers. The fact that South Africa appears...
04 April 2023
Green energy: South Africa’s transition plan must be careful not to deepen inequality
Since the UN Climate Change Agreement was signed by 196 nations in December 2015, many countries have announced policies...
15 March 2023
Redress for victimised whistle-blowing public servants is a critical in SA
Through the State Capture Report we know that individuals received backlash in the form of malicious disciplinary...
01 March 2023
Getting to the roots of contemporary protests in South Africa
Mistra and the Wits School of Governance recently launched the book, Protest in South Africa: Rejection, reassertion...
21 February 2023
Why SA’s CSR models need to change
SA's corporates must rethink their flawed CSR models or risk rising anti-business feeling, community protests and legal...
19 February 2023
Death of globalisation is overhyped and distracts from its real problem – inequality
The inequitable distribution of the benefits of globalisation and the emergence of new technologies that reproduce...
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29 May 2026
WATCH: Architects of a capable State - celebrating our certificants
We recently held our Executive Education Certification Ceremony where hundreds of delegates successfully completed an...
11 May 2026
WATCH: Parliament failed to properly scrutinise NHI Act - Van den Heever
In a recent interview with Newzroom Afrika, Adjunct Professor Alex van den Heever says it is not Parliament’s role to...
10 March 2026
WATCH: AUDA-NEPAD, WSG launch innovative executive programme
Advocate Melanchton Makobe, Acting Director-General of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, joined H.E...
28 July 2025
WATCH: Meet Jabulisile Shabalala, a WSG graduate who shares her research on inclusive housing
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28 July 2025
WATCH: Dr Linda Ncube-Nkomo says "Leadership is not confined to job titles"
Dr Linda Ncube-Nkomo, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund addresses WSG delegates
14 May 2025
WATCH: US genocide claim aims to undermine SA in Israel case - Ngcetane-Vika
Forty-nine white South African Afrikaners arrived in the United States of America to be granted refugee status, claiming...