The School of Public Leadership (SPL) hosts a diverse range of centres and initiatives dedicated to advancing research, learning, and practical innovation across governance, sustainability, local government, ethics, energy, and complex systems. Collectively, these centres serve as knowledge hubs that support evidence-based policy, capacity development, and solution-oriented engagement with government, academia, and society.
Centre for Local Government
Provide opportunities for world class research on local and provincial government challenges, locally, nationally, in Africa and internationally.
Be a repository for access to state of the art resources and a knowledge hub for local government academics, researchers, officials, councillors and non-governmental agencies.
Provide opportunities for learning and growth and to develop a new generation of though leaders in the field of local government.
Centre for Local Government
To remain relevant and knowledgeable across relevant corruption subject matter ACCERUS strives to be appropriately expert in:
High levels of education and training supported by rigorous research.
The internal workings and circumstances of government institutions. (Here ACCERUS benefits greatly from the experience the SPL has accumulated through its many years of interaction with, and study of, government organisations and their officials)
Centres
TsamaHub, The Centre is an academic structure established to facilitate and coordinate the Doctoral Programme as well as to engage all the relevant knowledge-holding stakeholders with a view to conduct applied solution-based sustainability research in the Stellenbosch area.
CRSES, The Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (CRSES) acts as a central point of entry into Stellenbosch University for the general field of renewable energy. Some contract research projects are completed within CRSES while others end up in...
CST, The Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) is the hub of the Stellenbosch University NRF Flagship Initiative, and was established in 2015. The CST is a research and training centre that draws together researchers, students and practitioners interested in complexity thinking, sustainability and transdisciplinarity.
Institutes
Sustainability Institute, Sustainability Institute provides a space forpeople to explore an approach to creating a more equitable society that lives in a way that sustains rather than destroys the eco-system within which all society is embedded.