The South African Cities Network has been generating State of Cities Reports (SoCRs) since 2004, presenting five-year perspectives on the performance of and conditions in South Africa’s largest cities. As an accompaniment to the State of Cities Report 2021, SACN has produced the People’s Guide. The 2021...
The South African Cities Network [SACN] has been generating research products relevant to Urban Development for over 20 years since its establishment. An increasing number of publications and projects are completed each year with a total of over 150 research products produced. In March 2022,...
The report’s aim is to present, analyse and assess city-level crime trends towards more efficient urban safety institutionalisation, planning, targeted financing and strategy development, analysing South Africa’s major cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay, Mangaung, Buffalo City and Msunduzi. Click here...
The annual State of the Expanded Public Works Programme in South Africa Cities Report 2020-2021 is now available, to get your copy please click here...
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...