The recent electricity hikes have affected everyone from government to the private sector, and not least of all, the ordinary man on the street. As organs of ...

Section 56 of the Municipal Structures Act provides that the Executive Mayor is obliged to perform duties and exercise such powers as the council may delegate ...

The Department of Provincial and Local Government recently announced draft Guidelines for Implementing Multilingualism in Local Government. The draft ...

The Department of Land Affairs has tabled the long-awaited Land Use Management Bill, No 27 of 2008 (the Bill). The Bill, scheduled to be passed this year, ...

Who is liable to pay the municipal accounts of defaulting tenants?

Despite their potential to advise, support and strengthen local government in its response to HIV and AIDS epidemic, many local and district AIDS council are ...

In post-independence Zambia, governments have sought to design and implement decentralised democratic local governance to facilitate wider participation by the ...

In the last decade we have seen a shift in the way local government is conceived-socially, politically and in the legal context. The changes status of local ...

Parliament has nearly completed its work on the local Government Laws Amendment Bill which was tabled towards the end of 2007. Many of its provisions are ...