The July–September 2026 edition of the New South Institute newsletter is now available. This quarter’s issue opens with Statecraft 2026, our international congress on democracy and public institutions, held on 22 and 23 September at GIBS in Johannesburg.

The issue also covers:

• Retiring the 1994 Generation: The Senior Management Service, the third report in the Government in Numbers series, by Ivor Chipkin.
• The Crisis of Johannesburg: An Agenda for Institutional Reform, commissioned by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE).
• NSI’s new memberships of Southern Voice and the Article 109 Coalition.
• The launch of Building Shared Prosperity in South Africa, a five-part series by Alan Hirsch and Brian Levy, and of Histories of Government, a new Substack with the University of the Western Cape’s School of Government.
• Public lectures on South Africa’s Third Transition, our work on migration governance and South-South Dialogues, and contributions to international conferences.

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