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District Municipalities: Their role and function
District municipalities, having shared authority with local municipalities will be a significant innovation brought by the final phase of local government ...
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Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2000
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Division of Powers and Functions between District and Local Municipalities
This is a report from the Municipal Demarcation Board and the Department of Provincial and Local Government on the process of division of functions between ...
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Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2001
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DOWNLOAD FULL PDF OF VOLUME, ISSUE 1, APRIL 1999
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Volume 1, Issue 1, April 1999
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Draft Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill.
On 6 May this year, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform published a Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill for public comment, with a ...
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Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2011.
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Easing Interventions in Local Government: The Proposed Constitutional Amendment
The proposed amendment to section 139 (2) of the Constitution, tabled in Parliament in August, creates new grounds on which a province may intervene in a ...
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Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2002
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Edging Toward 50/50: The Final Score
This year's elections marked a step forward for woman's representation in local government, but it stopped short of the goal of equal gender representation set ...
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Volume 8, Issue 2, May 2006.
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Effective Service Delivery
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), in conjunction with the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), has produced a booklet on municipal commonages. As ...
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Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010.
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Electing Representatives to the District Council
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 ...
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Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2000
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Electing The Last District Councils?
The question waiting to be answered is whether this will be the last election that features districts as a political institution. Of the three local government ...
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Volume 13, Issue 1, April 2011.
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Electing Woman Councillors: 50/50 Representation?
With the upcoming local government election drawing closer, gender representation has become an issue once again. The use of a quota policy to address the ...
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Volume 7, Issue 5, November 2005