The South African Cities Network prepares and publishes regular editions of State of South African Cities Reports. These reports, with their thorough research, provide a basis on which to start looking at how to make South African cities better places in which to live, work...
South Africa’s growth domestic product recorded its fourth-quarter growth of 1.2% in 2021, growing at 4.9% on average[1]. Although this was an expansion of the economic growth, the economy was 1.4% smaller than before the Covid-19 pandemic. The shocks and stresses from the pandemic have...
The annual State of the Expanded Public Works Programme in South African Cities Report 2019-2020 is now available, plus two EPWP Research Reports, to get your copies please click here...
The State of City Finances report is one of SACN's flagship reports. This report examines the finances of nine cities in South Africa [Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, City of Cape Town, City of Ekurhuleni, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, eThekwini Municipality, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality,...
This report presents an analysis on the state of crime and violence in nine of South Africa’s major cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay, Mangaung, Buffalo City and Msunduzi. The data upon which the analysis is based comes from the annual...