The Municipal Finance Management Act gives provincial treasuries an important role in supervising municipalities. Whereas the provincial Departments of Local ...

Following a national conference on ward committees in June 2003, the Department of Provincial and Local Government published its long awaited Draft Guidelinies ...

In terms of section 82 of the Municipal Structures Act, not only a municipal council can appoint a municipal manager. Furthermore, section 30 (5) of the ...

Municipalities and municipal entities will have to read carefully when acquiring goods or services or when disposing of goods when the Municipal Finance ...

A new era has dawned in municipal finances with the enactment of the Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003. The main objective of the MFMA is to ensure ...

Though there is no common law right to a view, the case of Paolo v Jeeva N.O and Others 2004 (1) SA 396 SCA has led to the perception among the public that ...

While budgets have been instrumental in transmitting and reproducing gender biases, they also offer the possibility for transforming existing gender ...

The Municipal Finance Management Act is a very prescriptive piece of legislation and should not be read piecemeal, but worked through as a whole. Many chapters ...