AfricaScope has been commissioned by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) to look at how accessible key government services are in the poverty nodes of South Africa.  The services include schools, health facilities, social grant pay points, home affairs offices, police stations, Thusong Service Centres, labour centres and magistrate courts.  The project will be completed at the end of March 2009 and will show the average distances that people have to travel to get access to government services, what are the optimum locations for these services and what existing infrastructure of government departments can be used for these particular purposes.