Public money, public trust.
Group Chief Advisor, Ntiyiso Consulting Group
Commentary on SABC News, Newzroom Afrika, eNCA and Kaya FM. Analysis of local government and public finance, in your inbox.
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Roles
Five roles. One public purpose.
Municipal revenue, public finance and governance reform, in the boardroom, the studio and on the conference stage.
Group Chief Advisor at Ntiyiso Consulting Group, with more than two decades in consulting. He led Ekurhuleni Metro's revenue programme of 25 projects, and today he explains the public purse on SABC, Newzroom Afrika and EWN, and in Daily Maverick.
Media
As seen on
“But the issue about it is that we persist with what needs to be done. We tell the story, whether through the data that we use. The same data that they look at every day, and we find the nuggets. We find the problems, and we position it differently.”
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TV and radio
After the vote.
Results analysis and what comes next for local government, on Newzroom Afrika, Radio 702 and Kaya FM in the week of the 2026 local elections.
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After the local elections: the ANC blame game and coalition talks to come
The Money Show with Stephen Grootes, with Rebone Tau
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Local Election Results Analyst
Election night and results coverage
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Post-election local government: what lies ahead?
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Insights
Fixing the model, in public.
“Technical insolvency in South African municipalities is not a financial problem. It is a governance crisis masquerading as a balance sheet problem.”
Business needs to take a leadership role beyond the conversations that happen in the higher echelons and physically seek out entrepreneurs, businesses. The banks, for instance, sit with a number of accounts which belong to small businesses. And the question is, how are they, and what are they doing to help these small businesses to be able to access funding, to access markets, to access knowledge, and all of that.
More writing
- Fixing local government starts with admitting the model is broken
- The hidden risk in SA’s tighter inflation band
- From red tape to roadmap: How mSCOA can rescue our municipalities
- Municipalities can foster leadership stability if they build stronger leadership pipelines
- SA must diversify its revenue sources
- Beyond numbers, South Africa’s budget as a blueprint
- Fix Eskom and its siblings
Travels
Local work. Global rooms.
Where the work has taken him
From Ekurhuleni to Harvard.
Place
Travel is part of the job. Advising, speaking, studying and commentating take him across South Africa and abroad, and what he learns on the road comes back to the work at home.
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