Host:
Tasneem Essop (SWOP - The Society, Work & Politics Institute)

Produced by:
Richard Rumney

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The 9th episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on all major podcasting platforms.

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Guests:
Dr. Sithembile Mbete, Executive Director, PARI
Dr. Tracy Ledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI

Host:
Tasneem Essop (SWOP - The Society, Work & Politics Institute)

Produced by:
Richard Rumney

#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #GreenEconomies

The 9th episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on all major podcasting platforms.

Tap the link to listen: pari.org.za/podcast-just...

Guests:
Dr. Sithembile Mbete, Executive Director, PARI
Dr. Tracy Ledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI

Episode 9: Beyond Green Growth
Justice isn’t just climate action. Dr. Tracy Ledger and Dr. Sithembile Mbete debate equity, green growth and whether the Just Transition can truly restructure South Africa’s economy.

Episode 9 of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is now available on all major podcasting platforms.

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Episode 9: Beyond Green Growth
Justice isn’t just climate action. Dr. Tracy Ledger and Dr. Sithembile Mbete debate equity, green growth and whether the Just Transition can truly restructure South Africa’s economy.

#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #GreenEconomies

The ninth episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out tomorrow, the 21st of March on all major podcasting platforms.

Host:
Tasneem Essop

Guests:
Dr. Sithembile Mbete, Executive Director, PARI
Dr. Tracy Ledger, Just Transition Programme Lead, PARI

#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #PublicParticipation

The 8th episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on all major podcasting platforms.

Tap the link to listen: pari.org.za/podcast-just...

Host:
Tasneem Essop

Guests:
Kate Tissington, Researcher, PARI
Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI

Produced by:
Richard Rumney

EP5 challenges the common assumption that residents in informal settlements don't pay for water. It shows that households ostensibly covered by free basic water provisions frequently bear disproportionately high costs, particularly where scarcity enables the expansion of informal and private markets

Part 5 of Surviving on Four Buckets is now live

Watch part 5: pari.org.za/watch-surviv...

Video produced by:
Mahlatse Rampedi, PARI
Ntokozo Ndhlovu, PARI

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continue to undermine capacity, raising urgent questions about what meaningful change might look like in the lead-up to South Africa’s 2026 local government elections.

He argued for the need to build a coherent, broad-based movement with a clear vision, one that challenges not only political leadership, but the underlying logics shaping urban life. Contributions from the floor further highlighted how the monetisation of politics and deep political entanglements

Discussant, Devan Pillay, reflected critically on the limits of reform within existing political systems, questioning whether co-governance can meaningfully address entrenched corruption.

PARI Urban Crisis Seminar Series 2026 » PARI | Public Affairs Research Institute Building on our previous seminar series which offered scholars, researchers and activists a space to share their ongoing work, either by discussing work in progress or presenting upcoming and new…

that works through existing campaigns and organisations to strengthen active citizenry, improve accountability, and restore ethical leadership.

pari.org.za/pari-urban-c...

In today's JHB Urban Crisis Seminar, Yunus Chamda and Lisa Seftel unpacked the work of the Joburg Crisis Alliance (JCA), a citizen-led coalition responding to ongoing governance and service delivery failures in the City of Joburg. They outlined how the JCA builds a broad, non-partisan front

#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #PublicParticipation

The 8th episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on all major podcasting platforms.

Tap the link to listen: pari.org.za/podcast-just...

Host:
Tasneem Essop

Guests:
Kate Tissington, Researcher, PARI
Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI

Produced by:
Richard Rumney

EP5 challenges the common assumption that residents in informal settlements don't pay for water. It shows that households ostensibly covered by free basic water provisions frequently bear disproportionately high costs, particularly where scarcity enables the expansion of informal and private markets

Part 5 of Surviving on Four Buckets is now live

Watch part 5: pari.org.za/watch-surviv...

Video produced by:
Mahlatse Rampedi, PARI
Ntokozo Ndhlovu, PARI

#johannesburgwater #watercrisis #joburgwatercrisis

Public Affairs Research Institute PARI Research into the constraints to effective governance, underlining the importance of institutions and institution-building.

Watch the livestream for today's Urban Crisis Seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi6...

EP5 challenges the common assumption that residents in informal settlements don't pay for water. It shows that households ostensibly covered by free basic water provisions frequently bear disproportionately high costs, particularly where scarcity enables the expansion of informal and private markets

Part 5 of Surviving on Four Buckets is now live

Watch part 5: pari.org.za/watch-surviv...

Video produced by:
Mahlatse Rampedi, PARI
Ntokozo Ndhlovu, PARI

#johannesburgwater #watercrisis #joburgwatercrisis

#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #PublicParticipation

The 8th episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on all major podcasting platforms.

Tap the link to listen: pari.org.za/podcast-just...

Host:
Tasneem Essop

Guests:
Kate Tissington, Researcher, PARI
Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI

Produced by:
Richard Rumney

Episode 8: Building Accountability of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is now available on all major podcasting platforms.

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Episode 8: Designing Justice
Inside municipalities, can co-production rebuild trust? Kate Tissington and Mahlatse Rampedi explore collaboration, accountability and resilience where the state is thin.

The eighth episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out tomorrow, the 14th of March on all major podcasting platforms.

Host:
Tasneem Essop

Guests:
Kate Tissington, Researcher, PARI

#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #PublicParticipation

Tangible foundations of the Just Transition

Land is the base resource on which the climate response is negotiated. The renewable energy responses, adaptation and mitigation strategies are all hosted on land. Despite its importance and centrality -land has remained an invisible topic in the debates