Residents of Bon Vista Mansions v Southern Metropolitan Local Council

There is currently no legal provision that directly prohibits a local municipality's employee from sitting on the district council. However, there is a real ...

Public Participation is a fundamental part of local government's planning in the new dispensation. Aside from Chapter 4 in the Systems Act, no clear guidelines ...

Every municipal council has the right to to determine its internal procedures. This right is protected by section 160 of the Constitution, which allows a ...

On 4 October the Constitutional Court ended a period of political instability that started just less than a year ago with the break up of the Democratic ...

Conflict is one of the realities of political and social life. All governments face similar challenges as they cope with the pressures of modern social and ...

The Portfolio Committee on Provincial and Local Government passed this Bill on 22 October 2002 and the National Assembly passed two days later. The Bill at the ...

Gerber and others v MEC of the Gauteng Province and Eastern Gauteng Services Council (case no, 303/2001)

The North West Provincial Intergovernmental Forum was officially launched in July 1997.