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Treasury’s procurement overhaul – more rules won’t fix what’s broken
The country’s procurement crisis is not primarily a shortage of regulations – it is a shortage of administrative capability.
16 July 2026
The country’s procurement crisis is not primarily a shortage of regulations – it is a shortage of administrative capability.
A president can announce a smart city. He cannot announce the millions of private calculations that make such a city viable.
South Africa does not need a politics of permanent grievance; it needs a politics of competence.
The true divide in South Africa is not between African and Western, black and white, indigenous and foreign.
The triple bottom line fails because there is no coherent mechanism for balancing three allegedly equal bottom lines.
Nothing has really improved since Ramaphosa became president.
The costs of municipal dysfunction are being quietly transferred onto those who happen to own property.
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uMkhonto weSizwe’s (MK’s) recent turn in favour of the Tobacco Bill is noteworthy, though.