Thinking about ‘service delivery’

Thirty years into South Africa's democracy, and shortly before the 2024 elections, we at the South African Journal of Science decided to open a call for a discussion series on service delivery, for publication after the elections early in the term of whatever new government would emerge.This series follows on our more focused Discussions on Load Shedding in 2023.It is perhaps instructive that, although at the time of writing this (early August 2024) the issue of load shedding seems less critical than a year ago, issues related more broadly to 'service delivery' are more varied and, unfortunately, durable.