On CLC as the research angle for the liberation movement and on shaping the local government system as we know it.
Videos
On a 15-year long collaboration with the Community Law Centre on human rights and democratisation in Africa.
On 4 September 2020, the Dullah Omar Institute (in collaboration with SALGA and the Hanns Seidel Foundation) hosted a webinar on the upcoming 2021 Local Government Elections.
A recording of the Webinar hosted by the African School on Decentralisation and bringing together hosting and funding partners as well as selected participants across Africa to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on decentralisation in Africa.
'On helping to write a Constitution in a time of war (Part 1)' and 'On a Centre that is “For all of Africa”, academic and engaged in social justice (Part 2)'. #DOI30yrs
On the establishment of the ANC Constitutional Committee in 1990 and its connection with the Community Law Centre. #DOI30yrs
Albie Sachs, former associate of the Centre and former judge of South Africa’s Constitutional Court (1994-2009). On the Centre as the engine room of the intellectual foundation for the new Constitution…and on combining dreaming, imagining and ‘nuggety research’.
The Dullah Omar Institute turns 30 this year! Albie Sachs, Bulelani Ngcuka, Brigitte Mabandla, Renfrew Christie, Nicolette Naylor, Frans Viljoen & Vincent Saldanha recall the founding of the Community Law Centre in 1990 and its journey to becoming the Dullah Omar Institute.
The Dullah Omar Institute hosted a webinar on Transparency in local government procurement during COVID-19 on 15 July 2020, which attracted practitioners, researchers and civil society actors.
The first of a series of webinars on local government and COVID-19, hosted by the Dullah Omar Institute and the International Budget Partnership, took place on 04 June 2020, in partnership with the South African Local Government Association.
On 14 April 2020, the Dullah Omar Institute, together with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) hosted a Webinar on Local Government & COVID-19. With more than 100 participants, including Ms Bogatsu (MM Frances Baard District Municipality) and Mr Lance Joel (COO: SALGA), we discussed the impact of the lockdown on municipal services, finance & governance.
South Africans have been faced with and negatively affected by SOE failures, most recently those of PRASA and Eskom along with the distressing evidence presented at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry.