Much, if not most, of our country’s problems – particularly poverty and unemployment – stem from our under-resourced and underperforming local government ...

In recent months the courts have stressed the importance of the roles and functions of these committees. Contracts have been set aside because bid committees ...

Local government, in its democratic form, is a mere nine years old. However, the amalgamation and consolidation of municipalities and the establishment of new ...

Municipalities have registered a tremendous democratic and service delivery record, yet the public perception of them is troubling. Municipalities are too ...

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the disconnection of electricity supply to a block of flats by the Johannesburg municipality without prior notice was ...

Knowledge creation and sharing are intensified at the annual Knowledge Week gatherings at the DBSA, as development practitioners interact and debate current ...

This is a shortened version of the address by Yunus Carrim, Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Leadership, to the Institute of Local ...

Constitutional democracies are often ‘messy’. Systems in a democracy are largely dependent on a number of processes. If these processes are not synchronised, ...