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Ivor Chipkin

Ivor Chipkin is the Executive Director of the New South Institute think tank, based in Johannesburg.

Latest Work

Ivor Chipkin

5 October 2023

Civil service reform could spell massive change and be defining legacy of the Ramaphosa administration

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Ivor Chipkin

13 April 2023

The very basics of a tolerable life – safety, light and water – are insecure because of institutional failures

7 min

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Ivor Chipkin

4 December 2022

Phala Phala is not a crisis for South Africa; it is a crisis for Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC

3 min

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Ivor Chipkin

11 October 2022

The idea of South Africa is blowing in the wind – we are in the middle of an epochal change

4 min

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Ivor Chipkin

30 November 2020

The paradox of local government: Sacrificing service delivery at the altar of equity

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Ivor Chipkin

14 October 2020

Let a thousand citizen blossoms bloom – kickstarting and policing the SA economy

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Ivor Chipkin

10 February 2017

State of the Nation: The New Right in South Africa

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Ivor Chipkin

13 November 2016

The Bonds That Tie: Changing South Africa’s public culture

6 min

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Ivor Chipkin

16 October 2016

#FeesMustFall: Separating Treasury’s truth from ‘ultra-left’ fiction

6 min

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Ivor Chipkin

31 July 2016

In Jacob Zuma, South Africa has found its Gorbachev

5 min

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Ivor Chipkin

30 March 2016

Progressive Politics: In search of a silver lining in the current crisis

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Ivor Chipkin

1 October 2015

South Africa's Weimar moment

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