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Constitutional Court grants municipalities greater scope to rectify unlawful contracts
Suppose a new municipal manager comes across a procurement contract that was awarded irregularly more than three months ago. Can he or she approach a court to ...
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Volume 14, Issue 2, December 2019
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Land use management: Where traditional and municipal governance meet in rural areas
Municipalities play a critical role in service delivery, development and democracy. What is often forgotten in the assessment of local government is that, ...
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Measuring transparency, public participation and oversight in the budget processes of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities
The Metro Open Budget Survey (Metro OBS) is modelled on the global Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiated by the International Budget Partnership in 2006. The OBS ...
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Volume 14, Issue 2, December 2019
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Municipal Cost Containment Regulations: An attempt to curb local government wastefulness?
The public has long put pressure on the government to curb the resource wastage at the local level. In a bid to contain this problem, on 7 June 2019, the ...
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Volume 14, Issue 2, December 2019
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The BRICS Bank: More Money for South Africa’s Municipalities?
Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the term ‘BRIC’ in 2009 as an abbreviation for a group of four emerging economies that were growing relatively fast- ...
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Volume 14, Issue 2, December 2019
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The Commonwealth Local Government Forum focuses on the Localisation of the Global Sustainable Development Goals Agenda in Southern Africa
The Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF), a membership-based organisation established in 1995, and representing about 200 members across the 53 ...
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Volume 14, Issue 1, September 2019
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Can Zimbabwe walk the talk of devolution?
The vertical organisation of the state remains a thorn in a flesh in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Various forms of multilevel systems of government have ...
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Volume 14, Issue 1, September 2019
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Impact of the declaration of invalidity of the Municipal Systems Amendment Act of 2011
Background: On 9 March 2017, the Constitutional Court (the Court) confirmed a decision of the High Court, which had declared the Local Government: Municipal ...
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Volume 14, Issue 1, September 2019
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Amendment of the Local Government Municipal Structures Act: Is local government finally structured for success?
On 21 February 2019 the then Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Zweli Mkhize, delivered his address on the Municipal Structures ...
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Volume 14, Issue 1, September 2019
