News from the Research Office 2

WSG and the Thabo Mbeki Foundation 7

News from our Academic Office 9

News from the Executive Education Office 9

News from CLEAR 10

Introducing New Staff 11

Conferences 12

Life in the City 13

Events 14

Upcoming events 16

Masters in M&E 17

News from the Head of SchoolWSG at work!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

WSG Newsletter June 2016

contents

As the cold winter months begin to settle in, the Wits School of Governance is shaking off the weather with an

extremely busy schedule of events, a full teaching and supervision load under way, coupled with some very exciting research projects. Recent weeks have seen the School honoured by visits from a remarkable range of people, from former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe and former Speaker of the House Max Sisulu, to Gauteng Premier David Makhura, to Ahmed ‘Kathy’ Kathrada, Adv George Bizos, Kerry Kennedy (and a full house of 28 Kennedy children and grand-children) honouring the 1966 visit of her late father Robert F Kennedy to Wits in 1996, to Judge Barney Afako on Africa Day, and many more. Through our partnership with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, we ran a highly successful Africa Day event focusing on women in conflict in Africa, while the Kennedy tribute, which saw us joined by US Ambassador Patrick Gaspard, was also part of WSG reflecting on Africa month. Premier Makhura offered a public lecture on the relevance of the ‘Africa Rising’ (often followed by ‘Africa Falling’!) narrative. The various events, including the Dialogues and Debates organised with our partners in the UNDP and Tambo Foundation, are described later in this bulletin. Two events are already scheduled for June under this latter project portfolio, indicative of the pace at WSG. In each case we try and ensure active participation from the floor, not just talking heads on stage.

At the same time, WSG is working at full speed on teaching. Unlike undergraduate Schools, with our block release and part-time students, the campus is abuzz with teaching and learning all day, most nights, and on weekends. Class teaching, group work, computer lab work, syndicate work and so on is taking place in every space students can find. Our PhD applicants are all getting close to defending their short proposals, and hopefully moving into full candidature, along with our Masters by Dissertation students. The supervision load is high in all post-graduate schools, and the academic staff are seen on a daily walk from the main WSG offices to

Mwalimu House for Masters and PhD defence panels, submission panels and the like, before returning for teaching.

And of course research comes on top of this. In this edition, Prof Susan Booysen briefly outlines a book she has edited, and to which most WSG staff (and many others including academics from other Schools and Universities, student leaders, WSG students and so on) have contributed, looking at the #feesmustfall movement, its antecedents, the crescendo in late 2015, and the prospects for 2016 and beyond. Supported by a CLM Faculty Research grant, the book will hopefully be out by September 2016, a quite remarkable feat. A second book on governance in South Africa, edited by Profs Pundy Pillay and David Everatt, is moving ahead … rather more sedately.

Research projects are described below by Prof Pillay, the Research Director, and they are many and diverse. They include work on SADC security protocols, large scale education research, the GLOBUS project focusing on social justice in the BRICS countries, and many more. WSG is also in advanced discussions with MIT about a project that will track all newly elected councillors for the next five years.

We are happy to welcome new staff into this growing and exciting environment. 2016 has seen Distinguished Professor Patrick Bond come onto our staff full-time. Dr Darlene Miller and Dr Caryn Abrahams both joined us as Senior Lecturers, and two lecturers in quantitative methods will join WSG on July 1st, all helping ensure that transformation is moving ahead at some speed in WSG. Transformation of the staff in one part of the story; the other, to be described in later newsletters, is the massive curriculum transformation exercise the School has now initiated, with every academic staff member engaged in the project.

In short: it may be cold outside, but inside WSG it is rather warm, and all are welcome!

The research vision at WSG is to become a first port of call for masters, doctoral and professional researchers interested in learning about how Africa works in the broad arena of governance, and in particular, how to navigate the politics of delivering development in Africa’s highly unequal and impoverished contexts. The primary purpose is to produce knowledge about how African public and development institutions are governed and managed.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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News from the research office

#FeesMustFall BookWSG is excited to announce the manuscript of its news book has been accepted for publication by Wits University Press

#FeesMustFall! From Revolt to Review of Governance

Editor: Susan Booysen

Chapter Titles and Authors

Section 1: Power redefined – ‘what happened to governance?’Preface and Introduction Editor – Susan Booysen

• The 2015 student revolt changing governance in South Africa, Susan Booysen

Section 2: Primary voices – ‘the roots of the revolution’• The roots of the revolution, Gillian Godsell & Kgotsi

Chikane• The game is still the same: #MustFall goes global, Sizwe

Mpofu-Walsh

• #OutsourcingMustFall through the eyes of workers, Omhle Ntshingila, with workers

• Documenting the revolution, Gillian Godsell, Refiloe Lepere, Swankie Mofoko,& Ayabonga Nase

Section 3: The revolt – ‘rising against the liberators’ … South Africa in Africa • Standing on the shoulders of giants? Successive

generations of youth sacrifice in South Africa, David Everatt• Learning from student protest in post-independence sub-

Saharan Africa, Lynn Hewlett, Gugu Mukadah, Horácio Zandamela, & Koffi Kouakou

• Unfinished revolutions: The North African uprisings, William Gumede

Secton 4: Power and class redefined – ‘sit down and listen to us’• To win free education, must fossil-intensive neoliberalism

also fall?, Patrick Bond• Bringing class back in: Wits and #OutsourcingMustFall,

Vishwas Satgar

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• Between a rock and a hard place: University management and the #FeesMustFall campaign, Patrick Fitzgerald & Oliver Seale

• Financing universities: Promoting equity or reinforcing inequality, Pundy Pillay

Section 5: Justice, identity, force and rights – ‘we came for the refund’• Excavating the vernacular – ‘ugly feminists’, generational blues

and matriarchal leadership, Darlene Miller• Just causes, the use of force and the possibility of injustice,

Thad Metz

Conclusion• Conclusion: Aluta continua!, Editorial collective / Susan Booysen

The following are excerpts from two anonymous reviewer assessments of the #FeesMustFall manuscript, which they reviewed for Wits University Press.

Reviewer 1:

“This solid scholarship, nuanced and diverse, is everything that the bitter on-line polemics of a few conservatives is not. The multidisciplinary scope of political scientists, sociologists, an economist, and a philosopher ensures breadth in coverage. The diversity of the authors’ personal preferences and perspectives also give a welcome spectrum of views through this first book on the #FeesMustFall movement. I strongly recommend publication. As the first book on #FMF, this volume is a substantial contribution to the field.”

Reviewer 2:

“The earlier chapters give a good sense of the excitement of the movements, their portentous language and heady ideas. Some of the later chapters give more background and a few are more sober academic or technical discussions – for example of the history of student protest in Africa or the dilemmas of university funding… As someone who followed aspects of RMF and FMF in the media, I learnt a good deal from the various contributions.”

In addition to the publications listed in the previous edition of the newsletter, publications that have been submitted to Department of Higher Education in 2016 include the

following:

Journal Articles

• Abrahams, L. & Fitzgerald, P. (2015). Would ‘Good’ Values Yield Good ‘Value’? Positioning Higher Education in an Emerging Knowledge Economy. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 6, pp. 125 - 137.

• Cawthra, G. (2015). The South African ‘War Resistance’ Movement 1974-1994. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, 43 (2), pp. 112 - 218.

• Everatt, D. (2015). ‘Quality of Life in the Gauteng City-Region, Souhth Africa’. Social Indiactors, October 2015, pp.1-14.

• Dlamini, M., Sutherland, M., & Werbeloff, M. (2015). The Effects of Hybrid Pay Incentives on Work-Team Performance: A longitudinal Study. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 18 (4), pp. 463 - 474.

• Fitzgerald, P. & Latib, S. (2015). A model for assessing and shaping public service leadership development interventions. Journal of Public Administration, 50 (2), pp. 251 - 263.

• Gilder, B. (2015). Public Service By, Of And For The Public. Journal of Public Administration, 50 (3), pp. 578 - 558.

• Gumede, W. (2015). Administrative Culture of the South African Public Service: A Finity of Transformation. Journal of Public Administration, 50 (3), pp. 589 - 599.

• Gumede, W. (2015). Transformation of South Africa’s Public Service: A question of failure to transform the Administrative culture of the Public Service. Journal of Public Administration, 49 (4), pp. 497 - 508.

• Matshabaphala, M. (2015). Leadership and good governance in the public service: Lesson from African philosophy. Journal of Public Administration, 50 (3), pp. 496 - 504.

• Potgieter, T. & Greyling, F. (2015). Defining, designing and delivering induction training in the South African Public Service. Journal of Public Administration, 50 (3), pp. 600 - 619.

• Wotela, K. & Letsiri, C. (2015). International movements, post-apartheid dispensations and illegal immigration into South Africa. Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 11 (4), pp. 99 - 117.

Authored books

• Booysen, S. (2015). Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the time of Zuma (1st ed.). Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

• Picard, L. & Mogale, T. (2015). The Limits of Democratic Governance in South Africa (1st ed.). Cape Town: UCT Press.

Chapter in a book

• Collier, D. & Benjamin, P. (2015). Measuring Labor Market Efficiency. In S. Engle Merry & K. Davis (Eds.), The quiet power of indicators (pp. 284-316). New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Everatt, D. (2015). The Politics of Non-belonging in the Developing World. In J. Wyn & H. Cahill (Eds.), Handbook of Children and Youth Studies (pp. 63-78). Heidelberg: Springer.

• Masondo, T., Orkin, F. M., & Webster, E. C. (2015). Militants or managers? Cosatu and democracy in the workplace. In V. Satgar & R. Southall (Eds.), COSATU in Crisis: The fragmentation of an African trade union federation (pp. 192-216). Sandton, Johannesburg: KMM Review publishing company (PTY) Ltd.

• Menon, K. (2015). Supply and Demand in South Africa. In S. Schwartzman, R. Pinheiro & P. Pillay (Eds.), Higher Education in the BRICS Countries: Investigating the Pact between Higher Education and Society (pp. 171-190). New York: Springer.

• Sarakinsky, I. (2015).Corruption. In G. Khadiagala, P. Naidoo, D. Pillay & R. Southall (Eds.), New South African Review 5 Beyond Marikana (pp. 188-206). Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

• Smith, L., & Rubin, M. (2015). Beyond invented and invited spaces of participation: The Phiri and Olivia Road court case and their outcome. In C. Benit-Gbaffou (Ed.), Popular Politics in South African Cities (pp. 248-281). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

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PublicationsResearch output at WSG has increased over the last four years and continues on an upward trend in 2016.

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Showcasing a few WSG Applied Research ProjectsWSG continually undertakes applied social research projects in order to unravel and resolve problems in the practical world. These projects are predominantly on behalf of state departments, state owned enterprises, or non-governmental organisations, and provide insight and solutions to real-world operations, management, and strategy issues. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Examples of projects currently under way:

First Rand Empowerment Foundation

Wits School of Governance and BRIDGE have partnered to conduct education systems research for the First Rand Empowerment Foundation. The project is headed up by Prof Anne McLennan and the purpose of this research is to map and analyse educational systems in order to identify levers of change. This mapping will bring new perspectives and better causal and pattern analysis. Most importantly, it will locate the levers to rework the routines, systems and institutions that pattern relationships in school communities.

In a working system, institutions would shape the pathways that lead to results. In a sick system, institutional barriers may restrict the building of progressive pathways, contributing to poor outcomes (arguably an issue in South Africa). Given a deep understanding of how the system operates, identified changes would lead to collaborations that enable stakeholders and institutions to build pathways that improve outcomes. Interventions for system change need to disrupt established practises and institutionalise new ones in order to shift patterns of privilege, access and distribution. This is what the research will identify.

GLOBUS

WSG is part of an eight-university international consortium led by the University of Oslo to undertake a prestigious EU funded project on “Europe’s contribution to Global Justice”.

Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice (GLOBUS) will critically assess the EU’s impact on global justice. The project directs attention to the fact that the concept of justice is contested – within Europe as well as outside. The researchers will examine underlying political and structural challenges to global justice and provide in-depth knowledge on the EU’s role as a global actor within the fields of climate change, peace and security, asylum and migration as well as trade and development.

Horizon 2020 is the world’s largest research programme. GLOBUS was one of 45 projects submitted for the call ‘Europe’s contribution to a value-based global order and its contestants’ within Societal Challenges. The project ended on top of the list after the evaluation.

In order to ensure the broader impact of GLOBUS, it involves decision makers at the global, EU and national levels, as well as representatives from European and international organisations and NGOs, in addition to the research groups.

Prof Pundy Pillay, Research Director at WSG, will head this programme in South Africa and join a large group of researchers based at seven other institutions in Norway, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Brazil, India and China.

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• University of Oslo, Norway• ARENA Centre for European

Studies: Prof. Helene Sjursen • University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg, South Africa• Wits School of Governance / Prof.

Pundy Pillay• University of Tübingen, Germany• Institute of Political Science: Prof.

Thomaz Diez• University College Dublin, Ireland• School of Politics and International

Relations (SPIRe): Prof. Ben Tonra

• University of Bologna, Italy• Department of Political and Social

Sciences: Prof. Sonia Lucarelli• State University of Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil• Institute of Social and Political

Studies: Prof. Leticia Pinheiro• O.P. Jindal Global University, India• Jindal School of International Affairs:

Prof. Rohee Dasgupta• Renmin University of China• Centre for European Studies: Prof.

Xinning Song

GLOBUS PARTNERS

The PhD Programme at WSG 2016There have been a number of changes to the PhD programme at WSG. After years of hard work and much time spent building and developing the PhD programme, Dr Horacio Zandamela is focusing on his research and supervision and Dr Lynn Hewlett has taken over as co-ordinator. With entrance to the programme becoming more contested, finite supervisory capacity and the refocussing of the school, we have made some changes to the PhD programme for 2016. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Showcasing a WSG PhD Student

WSG currently has over 50 PhD students registered at varying stages in their research. In December 2015 nine PhD students graduated, one of which was Angelita Kithatu-Kiwekete.

Angelita had the following advice for anyone considering doing a PhD:

“The PhD is an arduous journey, but it is also one that is filled with new discoveries about oneself. It is a project that once you start, permeates all your life’s dimensions. Walk through the journey, through all the steps that you need to complete the project. Take time to breathe along the way. Keep your friends who also are walking the same journey or not close by - you will need them! Once you are done - CELEBRATE WITH GUSTO.”

Excerpt from the abstract of Angelita’s research:

“Public finance literature has minimally engaged the fiscal autonomy of African local governments, and cities in particular. African cities should independently generate a significant portion of revenue locally in order to finance a varied range of municipal services to a diverse municipal population. This study aims to provide insight through the contextual analysis of the revenue assignment function of African cities. The study explores fiscal discretion and appropriation as a reflection of local fiscal autonomy and how these manifest in local revenue instruments. The study employs an illustrative case study methodology on Nairobi and Johannesburg by means of an examination of local revenue generation particularly water revenue and municipal borrowing to examine the contrasting experience of local fiscal autonomy of these two cities.”

Applicants to the programme are required to have a Master’s degree in an area related to WSGs focus areas (with a minimum of a 65% average) and a

strong initial research proposal in an area where the school can provide supervisory expertise. Successful applicants are provisionally accepted onto the first year of the PhD programe and register as PhD candidates after successfully defending an unsupervised short proposal within the first half of the first year.

In the preparation stage for the short proposal the school offers assistance in the form of a course (currently called Social Theory) which is presented as part of the PhD first year. The key challenge here is for PhD candidates to demonstrate their potential writing without a supervisor. Once they have successfully defended their short proposal, students formally register as a PhD candidate and begin work with a supervisor on their long proposal. We are currrently considering how to best provide ongoing support during the PhD programme building on successful components we have offered before and introducing some new elements – possibly a seminar series and a student conference.

We would like to say thank you to Dr Zandamela for all his work over the years developing and carrying the PhD programme, and the best of luck to Dr Lynn Hewlett as she takes the programme forward.

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Dr Lynn Hewlett and Dr Zandamela

Angelita Kithatu-Kiwekete

WSG and the Thabo Mbeki FoundationOn 6 April 2016 the Wits School of Governance (WSG) entered into a collaboration with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) to support the TMF in its roles of conflict management in Africa and in the implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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The existing Centre for Defence and Security Management (CDSM) at WSG will be converted into the African Centre for Conflict Management (ACCM). The ACCM will implement a range of African democracy, elections, governance and conflict management-oriented research and analysis, training and education, knowledge-sharing and capacity-

building programmes. Ultimately, the ACCM will serve as the hub for the development of an African-focused research centre on peace, security, democracy and governance under the auspices of the United Nations University.

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L to R: Prof Habib, Dr Carolissen, Mrs Mbeki, Dr B BamFront row: Mrs Habib (Wits), Prof Habib (VC Wits), Mrs Mbeki (TMF Trustee), Dr B Bam (Chair, TMF Board of Trustees), Dr Carolissen (Chair, Wits Council). L to R back row: Reboile Mathabe (TMF), Prof Everatt (HOS WSG), Dr V Maphai (TMF Trustee), Prof van Nieuwkerk (WSG), G Serobe (TMF Trustee), Prof W Nhkuhlu (TMF Trustee), Mr T Adler (Wits), Prof I Valodia (Dean CLM)

The Thabo Mbeki Foundation is a non-profit organisation launched by former President Thabo Mbeki at the end of his service to the South African Government in 2008. The Foundation was established to support H.E Mbeki’s continuing engagements with efforts aimed at achieving the African Renaissance. According to H.E Thabo Mbeki, the African Renaissance ideal is about “creating a new Africa, about ending poverty and oppression, regaining dignity”.

Conflict and insecurity remain some of the major challenges confronting the continent, leading to the curtailing of growth and the reversal of substantial gains that would have otherwise been made. It is reported that 78% of global conflicts take place in Africa. One area of academic activity within WSG relates to security studies. WSG has been at the forefront of developing a range of training and educational qualifications for members of the security sector in South Africa, and has partners at several universities elsewhere on the continent.

Africa has been marred by the periods of slavery, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, with the continent facing numerous and deeply entrenched development challenges. Addressing and confronting these challenges will assist in ensuring that the continent produces a critical mass of intellectuals and thought leaders that can lead and direct the continent in policy formulation and implementation, including areas of peace and security, education and training, economic development and social transformation on the continent. African universities, think tanks, governments and other institutions are important platforms for sharing knowledge and ideals and training the future leaders of the continent.

The TMF and ACCM aim to set the agenda for progressive change throughout the continent and to create platforms for dialogue producing a continental movement driven by a new cadre of thought leaders. Envisioned is an African continent that is confident and at peace with itself, free of poverty and underdevelopment, prosperous, respecting human and people’s rights, enforcing women’s equality, respected among the community of nations, and developing through trade and not aid.

We have a duty to define ourselves. We speak about the need for Africa’s Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves and not another, determine who we are, what we stand for, what our vision and hopes are, how we do things, what programmes we adopt to make our lives worth living, who we relate to and how.

Thabo Mbeki, “Africa Define Yourself”

News from the Academic Office

News from Executive Education OfficeNew partnerships for EDU

The Executive Development Unit (EDU) has entered into exciting partnerships over the last few months. One such partnership is with Ditsela. Ditsela is a Labour Institute set up in 1996 as a joint project by the two largest Trade Union Federations, COSATU & FEDUSA. Part of the institute’s function is to coordinate capacity building interventions for COSATU, NACTU and FEDUSA trade unions. Over and above workplace industrial relations, Trade Unions through their respective Federations are active participants in influencing public policy in NEDLAC Chambers such as the Trade and Industry, Development, Labour Market, Public Finance and Monetary Policy Chambers. Unions are thus expected to develop capacity for trade union officials and shop stewards in these areas. The targeted programmes will include courses such as Economic Development & Policy; Research Methodology & Labour Market Analysis; and Industrial Relations.

The Metal and Engineering Industry Bargaining Council (MEIBC) is a significant labour market institution, and the largest bargaining council in the private sector. It covers over 300 000 employees and over 10 000 employers. WSG has partnered with MEIBC and aims to target mainly metal and engineering industry employees on a customised Industrial Relations executive development programme which will focus on the analysis of the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Labour Markets, called the Consolidated Main Agreement, and applied to industries covered by the MEIBC.

Prof Patrick FitzGerald, WSG Director for Executive Education

WSG academics have embarked on a comprehensive curriculum review process of our academic project, including the range of degree programmes, content, mode of delivery and teaching philosophies. The process will include stakeholder engagement (students, alumni and clients).

The school currently runs the Master of Management and Postgraduate Diploma in Management, both in the field of Public and Development Management, on a Part Time and Block Release basis, and in a variety of specialisations.

Applications for 2017 programmes are now open.

Prof Anthoni van Nieuwkerk, Academic Director

Courses Exec Ed has recently run:

The Housing Policy and Development programme ran in Johannesburg and Durban in April. The National Department of Human Settlements prescribed the programme for all its employees and municipalities are also following suit. WSG has been endorsed by the Department to proceed with the off-site training of the programme, hence there is an increasing demand across the country. This is one of the school’s courses that is fully recognised by the Department of Human Settlements to extant employees, mostly those at middle to senior management, who are supported in attending and obtaining the certificate of competency.

The Government Communications & Marketing programme commenced on the 3rd May. This programme provides an overview of the theory and practice of public sector management, with a specific focus on communications and marketing, in a developing country context. Students explore the machinery of government and the government communications environment, as well as the challenges and opportunities for communications and marketing.

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Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results, Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA)News from the Outreach Centres

CLEAR-AA recently partnered with WSG to complete a series of courses aimed at providing South African legislators and their support staff, with a basic grounding in Results Based Development as well as Monitoring and Evaluation systems. Through the 8 courses, 200 Parliamentarians from the National Assembly, National Council of Provinces and nine provincial legislatures have had capacity built in the use of M&E for oversight. In addition 70 content advisors and researchers from the National Assembly and Northern Cape Province were oriented in the use of M&E for oversight.

CLEAR-AA is embarking on a journey to respond to the growing M&E demand in West and East African legislatures. An exploratory regional workshop hosted by GIMPA with key stakeholders (including ECOWAS representatives) was held in Accra in March, with further workshops planned in East and Southern Africa in June and September.

Research:

• Diagnostic study on the oversight function of legislatures• Research for a diagnostic exploring the gender responsiveness

of government monitoring and evaluation systems was carried out.

Strengthening National M&E SystemsCLEAR-AA in cooperation with the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) conducted three course pilots which trained 130 officials across 4 provinces. Two of the course pilots were on the Theory of Change. The second pilot of a Planning Implementation Programmes course was held in the first quarter. The Twende Mbele program completed a foundation phase, which carried out several activities that laid the groundwork for a longer cooperative programme to strengthen public sector monitoring and evaluation systems through peer learning. This included:

• A civil society workshop in March with civil society representatives as well as senior officials from departments of monitoring and evaluation from Benin, South Africa, and Uganda.

• Ongoing work to adapt the MPAT tool for use in Benin and Uganda.

Research:

Research that seeks to analyse and understand the dynamics of collective action movements in West, East and Southern Africa is underway in partnership with IPA-Ghana with a grant from Rockefeller Foundation.

Gender Diagnostic: Through the Twende Mbele initiative, CLEAR-AA was able to facilitate an overview process regarding the current status of the National Evaluation systems in Benin, Uganda and South Africa.

Expanding Professional Evaluation Expertise Two regional workshops in March – one in Nairobi and one in Accra – provided a platform for exchange on the current status of M&E training, higher education and the sharing ideas for a collaborative approach going forward. These workshops have spawned ECD networks both in East and West Africa amongst Higher Education Institutions that see the value of a knowledge sharing platform to take this work forward.

Deepening EvaluationGIMPA, in collaboration with CLEAR AA, Venture Capital Trust, the GIMPA Centre for Impact Investing, IDRC and the Rockefeller Foundation coordinated a two day workshop in Accra in April entitled ‘Evaluating Impact Investing: Building the field, Measuring Success’.

Research:

CLEAR-AA is working with Transport Educational Training Authority (TETA) to develop a research strategy and research protocols to guide the management of research studies undertaken by the organization.

CLEAR-AA has had an eventful first quarter of 2016 with exciting work being carried out locally and in East and West Africa. As of 2016, CLEAR AA has selected Ghana, Uganda and Zambia as three countries to extend its work programme to. The first quarter saw a heavy focus on Ghana thanks to the re-engagement with the Ghanaian Institute for Management and Public

Administration (GIMPA). GIMPA is involved in a process to revise and upgrade their postgraduate M&E offerings. WSG has expressed the same aspirations in the foreseeable future. In keeping with its objective, CLEAR-AA provided a platform in February 2016 for learning and knowledge exchange to take place between the two institutions.

Highlights from CLEAR-AA according to Business Line:Strengthening Oversight of African Legislatures

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Life in the City

Johannesburg is grappling with a

daunting set of policy challenges such

as migrancy, poverty, unemployment,

uneven levels of economic growth,

financialisation of the economy,

informality, inequity, violence, high

levels of protest, informal settlements,

aging infrastructure, changing

economic base and service delivery. The

problems that these conditions produce

and reproduce make Johannesburg

an ideal ‘laboratory’ for a project

combining different disciplines and

methodological approaches to find

solutions to these complex challenges,

ranging from helth to engineering,

humanities to the built environment,

governance to economics, and beyond.

Wits University is uniquely placed to

make genuine inroads into addressing

these challenges. The Life in the City

project looks to build on

existing strengths within the institution,

and on the strengths of a network of

partnerships, to develop a holistic and

multidisciplinary body of work to create

the conditions for a city that is inclusive,

safe, resilient and sustainable. It also

seeks to deepen relations between

Johannesburg and Wits.

The focus and purpose of the Life in

the City project is to invest substantial

University resources into high-quality

PhD and post-doctoral students,

working across disciplines, to develop

a deeper understanding of the

challenges facing the City and possible

solutions. Given that the task of

addressing complex societal problems

is incommensurate with the problem-

solving potential of a single academic

discipline, this project

applies a multi/transdisciplinary

focus to social problems. By bringing

together multiple theoretical lenses

and disciplinary perspectives, it will

be possible to provide a unique and

holistic perspective of complex

systems. Taking this approach places

the management of synergies at the

heart of the project.

In response, Wits has allocated a

substantial sum of money to fund

PhD and post-doctoral research with

two criteria: (a) the research must be

multi/trans/anti disciplinary, and (b)

it must tackle a ‘real world’ issue in

greater Johannesburg. Proposals will

be judged on merit, insight, focus and

methodology.

Wits University Life in the City: Understanding

complexity and rapid change to create

better and sustainable

livelihoods for the people of Johannesburg

Call for Proposals

This call is for proposals for

innovative, transdisciplinary research,

grounded in real world challenges facing Johannesburg.

Generous grants will be made available to successful applicants. These will cover fees, and thereafter will be paid in

monthly instalments. No additional funds will be available from the WSG or project.

Proposals should demonstrate original contributions to intellectual and/or policy debates and break new theoretical

and/or empirical ground. Research should help formulate innovative solutions to issues such as inequality, exclusion

and marginalisation, as well as sustainability, urban policy, race and xenophobia, the built environment and so on,

through transdisciplinary approaches.

Proposals should include the

following sections

• Research focus and background

• Research problem

• Research questions

• Research aim• Merit of the research and proposed

contribution to the field

• Proposed research methodology

• Research plan

Please submit a brief proposal (5-15 pages), a letter of endorsement from your

supervisor/s, CV and other documents you deem appropriate for the committee to see

(e.g. journal articles, etc.) to simone.smit@wits.ac.za no later than c.o.b. June 30th 2016

Further information

For any queries please contact Simone Smit on

011 717 3855 or simone.smit@wits.ac.za

Wits reserves the right not to make any awards

Application Details

Submissions The Life in the City project is hosted and run by the Wits School of Governance

PhD and Post-doctoral Scholarships for Multi/

Trans/Anti-disciplinary Research

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The Life in the City call for proposals has gone out and we are already receiving proposals. Remember to send yours before the 30th June!

If you missed the deadline for Round One of Life in the City, please don’t worry – we will be issuing calls for PhD and post-doctoral proposals again at the end of 2016, in mid-2017, again at the end of 2017, and hopefully well into 2018. So never fear, there are still grants to be made available for some years to come.

Getting to know Dr Desné Masie:

Desné joined WSG in February, and from the beginning was pleased about the international reach of the School, with many staff having had international training, and many students from other African countries. She has had a diverse education, moving from liberal arts to finance and much in between, and her approach to life and work is interdisciplinary. At the moment her research interests are international political economy. Desné is “obsessed” with politics and current affairs, which feeds into her current work as well as the journalist in her (she was a senior editor in capital markets at the Financial Mail in Johannesburg, and has also provided commentary on a variety of platforms such as The Times and BBC).

Desné received scholarships for her masters, which she completed at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). As a result of her experience at SOAS, she finds she thrives in multi-cultural, international environments. Desné completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh Business School which focused on the effects of new information in high-speed, globalised financial markets. She is also driven by social justice, and is pluralist and pragmatist in her personal politics - “South Africa has lots of different interests and forces to balance. If we don’t sit down and listen to each other, we won’t fix things”.

Desné has a mix of traits - she is hard working, but silly, stubborn, but open. One of the most important things for her is having a sense of fun and always laughing – “it’s extremely important in life to see the funny side of things”.

Where would she like to be in five years’ time? Being happy. Desné wants to focus on balance and happiness wherever she is. Along with this she would like to be researching what she is interested in, and having lots of publications under her belt. Desné had the following advice for all students: “Have curiosity about the world around you. Be enthusiastic – it’s the one way to get wherever you’re trying to be”.

Dr Darlene Miller, as a senior lecturerDarlene completed a Doctorate in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, with a focus on regional political economy. Her recent work includes film documentaries on women’s leadership, as well as project management of research on large-scale land acquisitions in Southern Africa. She was the Bloomberg Africa Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York in the year of 9/11 and Senior Advisor to the CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) for the International Social Science Council (ISSC), Paris. Current research interests are Regionalism in Southern Africa, Women in Leadership and Food Governance.

Mr Marcel Korth, as a senior lecturerMarcel is a social scientist by training, with research experience in both qualitative and quantitative research and professional experience in a number of community-based and international organisations. His interest lies in research that lends itself to supporting meaningful social change. He joined the Monitoring and Evaluation team at WSG in January 2016 where his work is framed by how institutions can build a culture of learning which will ultimately contribute to improved planning, implementation and evaluation of development initiatives. In addition to the use of evidence in decision-making, his research interests lie in youth development and gender justice.

Dr Caryn Abrahams, as a senior lecturerCaryn has two areas of interest: anti-racism and governing for inclusive urbanism; and urban food systems and governance. Apart from teaching and supervising, she publishes within these broad interest areas, and will develop a course on governing for inclusive urbanism in 2017. Her research interests are positioned between academia, the public sector and civil society.

Prof Patrick Bond, as a Distinguished ProfessorPatrick combines political economy and political ecology in his research and applied work, and earned his doctorate in economic geography at Johns Hopkins University. He is a professor of political economy at WSG and honorary professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies where from 2004-2016 he directed the Centre for Civil Society. Patrick has authored or edited more than fifteen books.

We would like to extend a hearty welcome, and look forward to having these esteemed colleagues join us on our journey.

Dr Desne Masie has joined WSG as a visiting researcher.

Introduction of new WSG staffWSG has recently welcomed new academic staff into the school’s family. These include:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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16th SAAPAM Annual Conference

The South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM) aims to encourage and promote good governance and effective service delivery through the advancement of professionalism, scholarship and practice in public administration and management. This year, members of our academic staff Prof Fitzgerald and Dr Matshabaphala contributed three papers. M&E Masters students Kutala Pangwa, Fanny Thindwa, Sithembiso Gamakulu, and Edwin Mohlalefi Moiloa, contributed a paper each which they co-authored with Dr Wotela.

The conference was held in East London and students who were not able to travel prepared slides on their papers which were presented by their fellow students. This highlighted the support and collegiality amongst the students at WSG. Fanny presented Kutala’s paper, and not only did the presentation spark interest, but greatly impressed the audience that a student could do so well presenting another student’s paper.

Dr Wotela additionally facilitated a workshop for the ‘young and emerging researcher’, which was attended by senior academic staff of other local and international Universities. The discussion was exceptionally received and sparked notable debate on research, and particularly on research tuition and supervision. Of interest in the discussion was the challenge of integrating and demonstrating how disciplinary theories inform the logic underlying the theory of change, an issue which is being explored by the monitoring and evaluation team at WSG.

In thanking the School and their supervisor Dr Wotela, the students had this to say: “[We] would like to thank you, for the passion and drive you have in your students. It takes a great supervisor to challenge their students to go an extra mile in building them up. We proudly associate ourselves with you. At that conference people were fascinated with our work, and that magnifies the School and University we come from.”

MM Students presented Dr Wotela with a beautiful gift to say thank you for all he has done for the class

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Conferences

Water Footprints Conference

WSG staff are continually engaging and presenting at conferences nationally and internationally. One example is the Water Footprints Conference held in Cape Town in April.

Water accounting is part of broader efforts to include the contribution of natural resources in national economic accounts. As part of a long-standing interest in water accounting, Mike Muller presented a paper at the first international conference on water footprints in Cape Town in April, which was organised by the Dutch-based Water Footprint Network and supported by South Africa’s Water Research Commission and the University of the Free State.

Prof Muller comments on water accounting below:

“Over the past decade, I have worked with the UN’s statistical agency and its global water assessment programme to try and devise robust indicators of water availability, use and management for use in national and local planning. Accounting for water is particularly difficult because it is a non-renewable resource.

There is considerable interest in ‘virtual water’ analysis, which tries to show how much water ‘flows’ in trade between countries. Calculating ‘water footprints’, the amount of water used to produce specific goods and services, makes it possible to calculate the ‘virtual water’ trade flows.

Another use for water accounting tools such as footprints is to give environmental activists ways to measure ‘sustainable’ water use. They could then use these to campaign for companies and governments to manage water better.

I highlighted the limits of this approach, drawing from work that I have done on regional planning for climate change in Southern Africa and the relationship between trade and water management globally.

I showed in my paper that relatively dry Southern Africa ‘imports’ water from the rest of the world (by importing products like rice and exporting products like fruit), within SADC, water-scarce South Africa and Malawi export a great deal of ‘virtual water’ to neighbouring countries which have more water.

The Southern African example simply shows that there are many factors other than water that determine where good and services are produced. Decisions on how to use and protect water are a local matter for which it is impossible to set detailed global standards. So, while ‘water footprints’ can be interesting, in my view they do not provide a basis for determining whether a water use is sustainable or not.”

Development and Rights Series – Dialogue 4

The Constitution, Prejudice and Unfair Discrimination: Racism - To Criminalise or Not to Criminalise?

Trust this helps. The question of whether or not racism should be criminalised has become a hot topic. In response, the Wits School of Governance in collaboration with the Wits School of Law, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Oliver & Adelaide Tambo Foundation and the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa presented Dialogue 4 in the Development & Rights Series on the 16th March.

The seminar tackled issues such as defining racism, constitutional limits to the right to freedom of expression, and the regulation of hate speech. In keeping with the topic of the dialogue, the panellists in their individual and professional capacities demonstrated passion for and commitment to overcoming racism and its damaging effects and consequences for individuals and society.

The debate focussed attention on the reality of racism in our society and the urgent need to dismantle systemic racism. While legislation can play a role, many panellists viewed constructive dialogue as the most effective means of moving forward. This should form a key part of a range of strategies including advocacy and public education. Government bears a crucial responsibility to ensure full use of the existing and enabling legislation. Ultimately, the greatest hope and potential for creating an equitable society rests with the individual.

Events

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OR Tambo Series - Building a Capable State

Debate 5 of the OR Tambo Series on IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN took place on the 29th March. The debate addressed issues related to building an ethical and effective public service and a capable state able to play a transformational and developmental role in realising the plan’s vision for 2030.

Panellists included Prof Richard Levin, Principal of the National School of Government; Adv Ngoako Ramatlhodi, Minister of Public Service and Administration and a member of the Judicial Service Commission; Elias Masilela, Executive Chairman of DNA Economics, member of the first and second National Planning Commissions and a visiting Senior Fellow at Wits University; Phindile Baleni, Director-General in the Gauteng Office of the Premier; and Adv Richard Sizani, the Chairperson of the Public Service Commission (PSC).

Special guests Ahmed Kathrada and Adv George Bizos

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The discussion was moderator by Adv Thuli Madonsela. Panellists included Prof Cathi Albertyn, Wits Law School; Faraaz Mahomed, SAHRC; Millard Arnold, Bowman Gilfillan; Simamkele Dlakavu, Wits student and Jallow Momodou, ENAR. Special Guests included Adv George Bizos and Ahmed Kathrada

It was noted that Chapter 13 of the NDP does not only consider a capable state, but rather a capable and developmental state. The distinction is important given South Africa’s context and its dichotomous economy comprised of rural and urban elements. Almost all the skills, capital and highest-quality services are located in urban areas. There is also the vast racial inequality hindering access to resources. A capable and developmental state is a state that can intervene to correct historical inequalities and generate opportunities for its citizens. The developmental state model recognises that neither government nor the market can develop the necessary capabilities on their own, and calls for the involvement of all spheres of the state, not just the executive and public service, but Parliament and the judiciary too.

Framing remarks on the NDP’s Chapter 13 – how far we might have come, and where we might be going – were captured in Professor Patrick Fitzgerald’s Concept Paper. In concluding, he notes: “…the strength and weakness of the Chapter was perhaps its exemplary character in terms of expressing good public administration and management practice. Seemingly, despite its trenchant analysis of key issues, and most constructive recommendations pursuant to achieving a developmental state, its somewhat textbook and best practice approach has left it without any discernible influence.”

Discussion included themes such as The Context of the National Development Plan, Stabilizing the Political-Administrative Interface, The Role of the Public Service Commission, The Public Service and Local Government as Careers of Choice, and Crowding-in the Private Sector.

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Africa Day Dialogue

On Saturday the 28th of May the school hosted a meeting in celebration of Africa Day on the theme of the rights of women in peace and security in Africa. The question of the rights of women is pertinent in 2016, considering lack of progress despite a range of policy interventions (including The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol). Women bear the brunt of exploitation under conditions of fragility, war and conflict, poverty and underdevelopment, and abusive cultural practices. Their voices are also excluded from the development agenda in terms of planning and implementation policies that affect them.

The event was attended by a full house of students and an august panel of speakers including three of our very own – Dr Darlene Miller, Dr Angelita Kithatu-Kiwekete and Lena Mukendi. Guests included former President Mbeki (panellist), Prof Patricia McFadden of UNISA (facilitator), Dr Brigalia Bam and Max Boqwana (Chair and CEO of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) respectively), and several other Wits Council members and TMF associates. Professors Adam Habib, David Everatt and Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk played supporting roles.

Speakers considered the rights of women in peace and security in Africa and addressed, amongst others, the AU mechanisms in place to protect women in times of distress and in need of dignity and recovery of abuse. Witsies, and students from elsewhere, engaged the panel on a variety of topics and themes – women in conflict, feminism, education, democracy, land, the economy, and security. A video and written account of this will become available later.

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This event marks the beginning of the partnership between TMF and WSG, to be managed via the newly-established African Centre for Conflict Management. Prof Van Nieuwkerk, who is the Academic Director at WSG, said a few words on the theme of the day:

“This event is an expression by Wits, and the TMF, of the importance of recognizing Africa Day. It is also a critical interrogation of what Africa Day stands for, hence the provocative byline in the invitation: Should women celebrate this day at all?

Addressing the theme of women in conflict in Africa is but one element of a wider scope of research and analysis that will inform the partnership’s programme. Our focus will very much be on capacity building and very soon we will be able to announce the establishment of a joint postgraduate scholarship programme to build the next generation of African peace and security scholars and practitioners.”

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Development and Rights Series – Dialogue 5

Dialogue 5 of the Development and Rights Dialogue series focused on commemorating Africa Month alongside the 50th anniversary of the late Robert F. Kennedy’s historic visit to South Africa in 1966. Senator Kennedy’s historic trip to South Africa is often considered the most notable visit made by any USA leader to South Africa during the Apartheid era. His message had an enormous impact at a very bleak time in the struggle for human rights and facilitated a feeling of hope that campaigners for democracy were not alone, and that important opinion in the outside world knew and cared about what was going on in South Africa.

Panelists for this event included Tawana Kupe, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Wits University; Patrick Gaspard, United States Ambassador to South Africa; Gita Pather, Director of Wits Theatre; Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; and Hon. Kgalema Motlanthe, Former President of the Republic of South Africa. Discussion focused on questions such as: What lessons can we draw today from that era in pointing towards a brighter future for South Africa and Africa? Where are today’s “ripples of hope” that could drive development and human rights? Where is the world today with respect to development, democracy and human rights 50 years later?

This exciting event took place on the 30th May, and adding to the programme the Drama for Life Theatre Company representatives performed excerpts from a theatrical piece, Speak Truth To Power. Drama for Life is a research and postgraduate centre for arts for social transformation and heal¬ing at the University of the Witwatersrand

“Each time a man stands up for an idea or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

- Robert F. Kennedy, UCT, 1966

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Upcoming eventsEpitaphs and Dreams

Wits School of Governance invites you to the book launch of:

Epitaphs and Dreams: Poems to remember the struggle by Patrick FitzGerald

“A mere offering of poetry, nourishment and wine”

Thursday 28 July 2016, 5:30pm for 6:00pm Please reply by 30 June to rsvp@buz.co.za or 011 673 0264 / 477 0923

2 St David’s PlaceJohannesburg, 2050

South Africa

Tel: (011) 717 3520admissions.wsg@wits.ac.zashortcourses.wsg@wits.ac.za

www.wsg.wits.ac.za

As we hinted in the last issue, here we will focus on the Masters of Management in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation (MM M&E). The M&E Masters has an inherent

capability testing mechanism, in that students move from the M&E Postgraduate Diploma into the Masters programme after achieving a 65% average. Almost half of the 2013 postgraduate diploma class qualified to attend the MM M&E. This figure reduced to about a third of the 2014 classes, and a higher proportion is expected for the 2015 class.

M&E can be conceptualised as a specialised form of research. Cutting across two research strategies and the five research designs, this has given the programme an advantage to hone research tuition skills. Students are pursuing topics requiring both qualitative and quantitative research skills covering the formulation, implementation, performance management, monitoring, and summative evaluation of development interventions.

Articulation of such types of research studies requires an understanding of M&E as well as various research approaches, procedures and methods. Therefore, students integrate logical and systems thinking, theory of change, and more importantly the discipline’s theoretical framework underlying the theory of change.

Most of the students from the 2013 and the 2014 Postgraduate Diploma cohort have recently submitted their reports for examination. Excitingly we had one study entitled “Use of Programme Theory in the Gauteng Provincial Government” which has been upgraded to a Doctoral research. Annette Griessel developed the fundamentals of her study unsupervised, which is an impressive feat indeed!

Lastly, four students presented their work to the SAAPAM Conference (See more on page 13). The programme will do this more explicitly where students in current and future cohorts will present papers to conferences and subsequently prepare papers for publication in peer reviewed journals.

From the desk of the Monitoring and Evaluation Convenor –Dr Kambidima Wotela

Examples of MM M&E Research Topics

Formative evaluation

“Evaluability of the Gauteng Science Park Incubation Programme”.

M&E systems

“Conceptualising a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Zambian Road Development Agency”.

Summative evaluation

“Outcome Evaluation of eKhaya Neighbourhood Development Programme in Hillbrow North”,

“Outcomes of HIV/AIDS Policy Intervention in the Further Education Training Sector”,

“Effectiveness of the Outcome-Based Management Policy on Water Supply at Local Government Level”

Data quality issues and use of results

“Performance Information in the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform”, and

“Utility of Evaluation Information within the Gauteng Department of Health”.