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SPII Newsletter December 2021

SPII Newsletter December 2021

This last quarter has seen almost unparalleled academic contributions to the global call for universal basic income guarantees. SPII is proud to have been...

SPII Talk Newsletter 2nd Quarter 2021

SPII Talk Newsletter 2nd Quarter 2021

This is the first edition of SPII Talk for 2021 and we have much to celebrate as an institute. We have been joined by...

SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter 2021

SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter 2021

This is the first edition of SPII Talk for 2021 and we have much to celebrate as an institute. We have been joined by...

SPII Talk Newsletter 2nd Quarter April – June 2020

SPII Talk Newsletter 2nd Quarter April – June 2020

To say that 2020 is a year unlike anything I have ever lived through is as trite as it is profound in my view....

SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter April– June 2019

SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter April– June 2019

What does the future of poverty look like? David Francis, Deputy Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University, tackles that...

SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter January – March 2019

SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter January – March 2019

As I write this, my neighbourhood has experienced four days of uninterrupted electricity supply, after weeks of frustrating load shedding. Stories of the impact...

SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter August – November 2018

SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter August – November 2018

The cost of the corruption has often been estimated in numerical terms. But surely there is another toll that the nefarious project has taken:...

SPII Talk Newsletter 2nd Quarter April – July 2018

SPII Talk Newsletter 2nd Quarter April – July 2018

In this edition of SPII Talk, Nsimbi helps us understand the disastrous human consequences of a failing land reform programme. Nsimbi, a 56-year-old domestic...

SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter January – March 2018

SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter January – March 2018

It’s been quite an eventful first quarter of the year. The political hangover of the ANC’s 54th conference in December has been felt far...

SPII Talk Newsletter 4th Quarter October – December 2017

SPII Talk Newsletter 4th Quarter October – December 2017

During this period, the South African government and its parastatals were plagued by the exposure of numerous scandals, including allegations of state capture and...