District municipalities, having shared authority with local municipalities will be a significant innovation brought by the final phase of local government ...

A district municipality covers the same area as the local municipalities within its district. In other words, a number of local municipalities together make up ...

The Constitution requires from provinces to monitor, support and, if necessary intervene in a municipality. The new local government dispensation, establishing ...

The SALGA Elections Strategy comprises two main focus areas. Part one of the strategy relates to the Record of Understanding that SALGA entered into with the ...

The Board will continue to consider boundary changes but for purposes of the elections the Board is only considering submissions which should clearly be made ...

As from the day of the forthcoming local government elections, local government's legislative and executive powers are going to be squarely based on the ...

The establishment of new municipalities is on our doorstep and it is crucial that certain financial and other related issues be addressed as a matter of ...

The final stage of local government transformation commences formally with the holding of the first meeting of the newly elected councils.

This is an edited version of a framework document, dated 11 October 2000 and prepared jointly by the Municipal Demarcation Board and the Department of ...