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Research data: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
2020 COVID-19: an opportunity for cultivating a positive public relationship with science in South Africa
The world faces accelerated change and uncertainty as countries try to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. South Africa also has to contend wit...
Download this report2020 Vuwani: understanding the violent community response to municipal boundary re-demarcation
Prior to May 2016, the relatively unknown community of Vuwani in the Limpopo Province of South Africa had hardly been prone to violent prote...
2019 Assessing service delivery: public perception of municipal service delivery in South Africa
Existing research reveals that there has been increasing community impatience related to basic municipal service delivery in developing coun...
2019 Effective public participation in municipal service delivery: the case of Nyanga township
Prior research on South African municipalities reveals that there is a continuing decline in public participation at the local level often r...