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South Africa's secretary of the cabinet and director-general of the presidency, Phindile Baleni.

‘Unless you fight for it, it’s not worth it once you get there’: Exclusive podcast with South Africa’s cabinet secretary Phindile Baleni

Series 3 of Global Government Forum’s Leading Questions starts off with a bang – our first interview for the podcast with a serving cabinet secretary: Phindile Baleni, South Africa’s secretary […]

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and president Xi Jinping of China meeting during his state visit to South Africa

A tale of two countries: why has state capture seen China boom and South Africa bust?

Government structures in South Africa struggle under what observers call state capture. Ivor Chipkin, the director of the Government and Public Policy think tank, based in Johannesburg, sets out what […]
A picture of the president of Rwanda Paul Kagame

Rwandan government launches AI centre to boost technological innovation

Rwanda has created a centre dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence to help create “faster, more agile approaches” to using the use of emerging technologies by government. The centre […]
A photo of Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s vice-president

Public servants ‘fall flat’ on policy implementation, says Nigeria’s vice president

Nigeria must ramp up efforts to train and motivate public servants or risk undermining its development prospects, Yemi Osinbajo, the government’s vice president has said. Addressing an audience of civil […]

Nigeria to ban unvaccinated civil servants from their offices

Civil servants in Nigeria will not be allowed into their offices unless they can prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or show a negative test for the disease, the country’s […]

Amidst the pandemic, African statistics are better than you think

Africa’s statisticians have done a remarkable job of gathering data on the pandemic, say Ghana’s chief statistician and the head of PARIS21. With more funding, they could go much further […]

The data-fuelled race to defeat COVID

Around the world, governments are racing against COVID-19 – attempting to get a step ahead of the virus as it harms people’s health and livelihoods. At a GGF webinar, panellists […]

Managing a distributed workforce now and beyond COVID-19

Earlier this year, civil services worldwide found themselves having to transition thousands of employees to working remotely, often with just a few days’ notice. And as panellists explained during a […]

All accounted for: how four nations tackled financial exclusion

Access to banking and financial services can help tackle poverty, boost economic growth and ease service delivery. Pablo Jiménez Arandia examines four countries’ very different approaches to tackling financial exclusion […]

South African officials to receive ‘lifestyle audits’ in anti-corruption drive

South Africa’s Public Works and Infrastructure minister, Patricia De Lille, has announced that “lifestyle audits” will be carried out on all senior staff in her department, in a bid to […]