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David Everatt
Head of Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
Professor David Everatt, Head of School of the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, has over 20 years of experience in applied socio-economic and development research, political and governance reform, designing and implementing monitoring systems, and programme evaluation. He has managed and/or participated in over 300 development projects, primarily in Africa. He was responsible for path-breaking research into youth marginalisation and out-of-school youth in South Africa in the early 1990s; his research into political violence was quoted at length by Nelson Mandela at the UN; he was the chief evaluator of the South African Constitutional Assembly between 1995 and 1997; and has served on successive election polling teams since 1994; and has researched issues from poverty and inequality to urbanism to class formation and voting behaviour. David designed civic education programmes in Kenya and Uganda, and led the Advisory Team reviewing Kenya’s Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector (GJLOS) Reform Programme. He also headed a 2-year study of sustainable livelihoods in the 21 poorest nodal areas in South Africa. He was the founder Director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), a partnership between the universities of Johannesburg and Wits as well as provincial and local government. He was Vice-President (sub-Saharan Africa) for the ‘Sociology of Youth’ committee of the International Sociological Association for 14 years, and now sits on their Advisory Board, and serves on the Board of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and of the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital.
David has published five books and his articles have appeared in many local and international journals. David is (happily) married with two (wonderful) children.
South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study
Apr 26, 2024 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...
South Africa's 2022 census missed 31% of people - big data could help in future
Oct 16, 2023 06:36 am UTC| Politics
No census is ever exact: as academics Tom Moultrie and Rob Dorrington at the University of Cape Town have noted previously: a census is not, in reality, a full and accurate count of the number of people in a country;...
South Africa's black middle class is battling to find a political home
May 02, 2019 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South Africas black middle class is growing numerically and growing politically restive. But does it see the world differently from others? Does this translate into voting behaviour? These questions require close...
Lessons from KPMG: be on guard, South Africans are on your case
Sep 22, 2017 03:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Moses came down from the mount with tablets inscribed with 10 commandments. Most of us know (most of) them, and most of us fail to live by (most of) them. But if Moses had turned them over and looked in the fine print on...
Zille, tweeting and inanity: more reasons for white South Africans to shut up
Mar 30, 2017 04:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Its remarkable how much of a shitstorm Twitter creates when in the hands of politicians with serious costs for the rest of us. Helen Zille, premier of the Western Cape province and former leader of the opposition...
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