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The systems approach to urban water services in the context of integrated energy and water planning: A City of Cape Town case study
Energy Research Centre, 2014The research examines the direct energy consumption for the provision of urban water services as influenced by external factors such as population growth, surface water runoff variability, available alternatives and the policies that are adopted which ultimately determine the future planning.DocumentThe political economy of decarbonisation: Exploring the dynamics of South Africa’s electricity sector
Energy Research Centre, 2015South Africa’s electricity landscape is undergoing rapid change. The state-owned monopoly utility, historically dependent on the country’s until recently low-cost coal supplies is now in financial and supply-side crisis, subject to growing indebtedness and downgraded to non-investment grade or ‘junk’ status.DocumentDrivers of regional integration: value chains, investment and new forms of co-operation
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015This collection of papers is a combined initiative of Economic Policy Forum (EPF) member think tanks and is the result of two round-table discussions under the Regional Integration research stream.DocumentCentral America: a South African foreign policy adventure
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015South Africa established official relations with various States in Central America from 1993 onwards, thereby establishing its post-Apartheid era outlooks on interactions with the region.DocumentThe two shall become one: overcoming the stalemate between industrial and climate change policies
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015Industrial development and climate change mitigation have historically been opposed to each other. This is reflected in the industrial and climate change policy frameworks in South Africa.DocumentMineral rights, rents and resources in South Africa’s development narrative
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015South Africa is endowed with substantial subsoil mineral wealth, yet the development promise typically associated with this wealth has not been realised. Between 2001 and 2008 the South African mining industry contracted at a rate of 1% a year, while comparable mining jurisdictions grew at an average of 5% a year.1 This period marked the longest commodity price boom in recent history.DocumentPenetrating the Asian market: a case study of trade barriers for South African exporters into Indonesia
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015Since 2007, Asia has been the main trading partner for South Africa, in terms of total merchandised trade. Asia has been an important export market for South Africa’s trade-induced industrialisation strategy.DocumentThe ‘One Man Can’ Model: community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa
2015One of the main contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is shared social norms reinforcing restrictive masculine and feminine roles and inequitable gender relationships, which limit women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV while simultaneously putting social pressure on men to take on a range of sexual and health risks.DocumentThe ‘One Man Can’ Model: community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa
2015One of the main contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is shared social norms reinforcing restrictive masculine and feminine roles and inequitable gender relationships, which limit women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV while simultaneously putting social pressure on men to take on a range of sexual and health risks.DocumentConstitutional democracy and the rule of law in South Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2015As part of its transition to majority rule, South Africa adopted what some have described as one of the world’s most progressive constitutions in 1996. This marked the end of an era of “rule by law” in which the law was part and parcel of the oppressive system of apartheid.Pages