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No plan to fix education
27 January 2023 - Deputy Head of Reseach, Gerbrandt van Heerden, unpacks South Africa's real matric pass rate, and the underlying issues facing public schools.
[Audio] Differences in quality of life between rural and urban provinces
How do differences in the quality of life between urban and rural provinces affect migration, elections and independent movements in South Africa? Gerbrandt Van Heerden, research analyst at the Centre For Risk Analysis (CRA), speaks with Sara Gon on Chai FM’s IRR podcast series about the quality of life in South Africa and the implications of major inequalities between urban and rural provinces.
[Audio] Stats SA weakened and incapacitated due to lack of funding
Gerbrandt Van Heerden, research analyst at the Centre For Risk Analysis (CRA), spoke to Power FM's Thabiso Kotane about how cuts in government funding are threatening Stats SA’s ability to fulfil its core mandate − to produce key statistics that are vital to understanding the nature of South African society.
[Audio] Uganda se streng teen-gay-wetgewing veroordeel
Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ Bill condemned.
Discussion: Increase of pupils at independent schools
CRA’s Gerbrandt Van Heerden speaks on ENCA about school vouchers.
[News] ANC moet gaan, of munisipaliteite gaan knak
Indien die ekonomiese en basiese dienslewering daarmee saam gaan verbeter, sal die ANC op nasionale en plaaslike vlak die trekpas gegee moet word.
[News] SA ‘at risk of becoming a failed state’ – due to these FIVE factors
Yet another set of experts have flagged our current political situation – and the threat of South Africa becoming a failed state looms large.
[Opinion] Affirmative action failures: Malaysia’s warning for South Africa
Centre For Risk Analysis analyst, Gerbrandt van Heerden expands on the failures of affirmative action policies in Malaysia, and warns of the possibility of similar consequences in South Africa.
[Opinion] Businesses will not tolerate municipal decay forever
How can businesses assist in South Africa’s economic recovery when a growing number of the country’s municipalities are unable to perform their most basic functions?
[Opinion] Class inequality a growing concern in SA
There is growing evidence that the biggest issue facing South Africa is not racial inequality, but rather class and geographical inequality.
[Opinion] Declining living standards: Pandemic or Policy?
Covid-19 may have had a considerable impact on livelihoods and income levels in South Africa, but it is not the sole culprit for the decline in living standards.
[Opinion] Major declines for all income groups during lockdown
Covid-19 and the nationwide lockdown have severely impacted every income group in South Africa, with not even the richest cohort being spared the effects of shutting down the country.
[Opinion] Pupils’ poor performance on critical subjects contributes to joblessness, says research centre
13 May 2022 - SA is increasingly becoming an economy driven by the tertiary sector, but pupils’ poor performance in critical subjects is hindering them from entering the job market.
[Opinion] Quality over quantity
Will the declining average levels of basic service delivery influence voter behaviour in the 2024 National and Provincial elections?
[Opinion] SA needs more jobs - not social grant beneficiaries
Rather than creating wealth, South Africa has been stuck for the past decade in redistributing existing wealth.
[Opinion] SA policy status quo harming black people the most
After 30 years of democracy, the vast majority of black South Africans continue to languish in poverty at much higher rates than other racial groups.
[Opinion] SA’s emerging demographic crisis: dependency on the rise
The pressure on those who work to support the jobless keeps rising in South Africa.
[Opinion] South Africa’s departing elites: a critical warning sign
The past decade has seen a rapid decline in the number of dollar millionaires living in South Africa.
[Opinion] South Africa's welfare dilemma
Despite South Africans’ high dependency on the welfare system, the government seems unable or unwilling to turn the situation around. It now is considering making the temporary, special Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant more permanent.
[Opinion] Sweeping school drop-out rates under the rug
Although the matric results of 2021 show that the overwhelming majority of learners have passed, the figures conceal a low pupil retention rate.
[Opinion] The Economics Underpinning South Africa’s Riots
It has been labelled as South Africa’s worst episode of civil unrest since the days of apartheid. The rioting that occurred following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court on July 7—specifically, for failing to show up for an official inquiry into his alleged corruption during his nine-year presidency—has been among the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history.
[Opinion] Tourism sector counting on faster vaccine roll-out
South Africa’s slow vaccination rate risks permanently damaging one of the country’s few thriving economic sectors – the tourism industry.
[Opinion] Upcoming local elections and democracy in South Africa
17 September 2021 - The long list of problems in South Africa, including poverty, corruption and inequality, may hold the voters back from participating in the upcoming elections.
[Opinion] What South Africa could learn from California
There are few similarities between the US state of California and South Africa, but one thing these territories have in common is their hostility to business.
[News] ‘Pink Vote’ an untapped market for SA political parties
“Gerbrandt van Heerden, the author of The SA Pink Vote report, said if political parties continued to ignore the LGBTQ voting bloc during elections, they risked missing out on an active, dynamic and electorally valuable market.”
