Land-grabbing: Municipalities must uphold the Constitution when dealing with unlawful occupiers

Land-grabbing is a term that captures the story of land dispossession in South Africa. The term has its roots in our apartheid history in which the ...

Rogue leadership and lawlessness in Kannaland Municipality

More than half of Kannaland Local Municipality’s population lives in poverty. Improved access to water and sanitation, well-maintained roads, adequate parks ...

Traditional leaders, municipalities and land use management: Who does what?

On the 20th of October 2022, the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation South Africa held a webinar under the theme ...

Coalitions in local government: ideas for law reform

Coalition politics in local government, particularly in some of the country’s metropolitan municipalities continues to dominate the news for all the wrong ...

Composing selection panels to appoint senior managers in municipalities

The law provides that senior managers in municipalities must have the requisite skills to perform. It further prescribes the procedure for appointing senior ...

Human Settlements in the 2023/24 Budget

Increasing 4.4% to R34.9 billion in 2023/24, the budget of the National Department of Human Settlements serves as the primary means for government to achieve ...

Municipal managers must leave politics to councillors

After the 2021 local government elections, politicians have been fighting to control city councils where there is no outright majority. Mayors and speakers ...

Reflections on reforming municipal law and policy in harmony with laws on carriage of hazardous materials by road in South Africa

South Africa is an industrial hub in sub-Saharan Africa and its transport industry is a 333 790 billion-rand industry that significantly contributes to taxes ...

Using a section 106 inquiry to investigate theft?

Section 106 of the Municipal Systems Act of 2000 empowers the MEC for local government to request information or to appoint an investigator(s) if he or she has ...