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As streaming services surge, ICASA must urgently level the playing field for traditional broadcasters 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

As streaming services surge, ICASA must urgently level the playing field for traditional broadcasters

Considering the evolution of the digital economy, this article highlights Icasa’s inability to sync its development and regulations with the market realities of South Africa. View Now

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Job creation in SA – has Ramaphosa run out of ideas? 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

Job creation in SA – has Ramaphosa run out of ideas?

Considering the unemployment rate in South Africa, this article delves into how government has attempted to shift its responsibility of creating employment, this article unpacks how the state is not a mere passive participant in job creation and the role it ought to be playing to create an enabling environment for the private sector to…

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Is the Border Management Agency the answer to border security? 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

Is the Border Management Agency the answer to border security?

This article questions if the Boarder Management Act will be as impactful as it is envisaged considering the range of issues such as affordability, and implementation mechanisms that were smilingly unconsidered by the government during the development of the bill. View Now

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Why poorly negotiated public policies are a market hazard 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

Why poorly negotiated public policies are a market hazard

A commitment to science-driven policymaking, earnest listening and early-stage consultation with stakeholders must underpin commitment to social compacts. Therefore, this article highlights the importance of how President Ramaphosa’s commitment to social compacts should find direct expression in the processes of public participation in policy development while highlighting how they could solution the issue of the…

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Government must fast-track laws to decriminalise and protect sex workers 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

Government must fast-track laws to decriminalise and protect sex workers

Currently sex workers have no protection under existing laws, therefore, this article focuses on the government should fast track laws aimed at decriminalising and protecting sex workers as they continue to face various challenges including gender based-violence, murder, and discrimination. View Now

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National Policy Development Framework: strengthening evidence-based policy making 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

National Policy Development Framework: strengthening evidence-based policy making

This article analyses the National Policy Development Framework, unpacking its importance, relevance and how it can strengthen evidence-based public policy making in South Africa. View Now

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Our bad politics and the degenerating sociology of the public discourse 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

Our bad politics and the degenerating sociology of the public discourse

This article argues that society has effectively been left for dead in part due to an interplay between bad politics and prevailing public discourse. With local elections at the centre of discussion it unpacks the denialism and counteraccusations that are at the core of the country’s degenerating sociology of the public discourse and how it…

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In a democracy, all voices should be heard 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

In a democracy, all voices should be heard

It is a matter of common cause that democracy is premised on the freedom of opinion that is reflected through open criticism and debates, in light of that, this article tackles South Africa’s concerning trend of deliberately ignoring the voices of various stakeholders in its decision making or policy formulation. Highlighting the importance of remaining…

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South Africa’s nine provinces increasingly seem to be more of a liability than an asset 800 800 Frontline Africa Advisory

South Africa’s nine provinces increasingly seem to be more of a liability than an asset

This article argues that provinces in their current configuration can be a hinderance to service delivery, presenting a new thought that pertains to the reconfiguration of the intergovernmental system. Further arguing that there has been an erosion of capacity and a weakening of institutional integrity due to the inability of provincial municipalities perform. Read Article

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