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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 ...

Can a section 79 committee take the place of a section 80 committee?

With the enactment and implementation of the Municipal Demarcation Act, Municipal Structures Act and Municipal Systems Act, the new dispensation for local ...

Let's say that in a collective executive system, Party A has 37 councillors, Party B has 13 and Party C has one. The Executive Committee has 10 Members and ...

Does a candidate become a councillor on the day of the election or on the day that he or she is sworn in? This matter is important in relation to matters such ...

With the gradual implementation of the Local Government Property Rates Act, the impact of the new constitutional regime in the levying of property rates is ...

Section 62 of the Municipal Systems Act provides that any person ‘whose rights are affected by a decision taken by a political structure, political office ...

In City of Cape Town v Real People Housing (77/09) [2009] ZASCA 159 (30 November 2009), the Supreme Court of Appeal clarified the meaning of section 118(1) of ...

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 ...

There is widespread consensus that the severity of the HIV and AIDS epidemic cannot be curbed by the government on its own. In light of this realisation, the ...