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The mayoral committee is appointed at the discretion of the executive mayor. It therefore need not include other parties on a proportional basis.

Following the delimitation in 2009 and 2010 of wards in which successful local elections were held on 18 May 2011, the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) has ...

The Metro Open Budget Survey (Metro OBS) is modelled on the global Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiated by the International Budget Partnership in 2006. The OBS ...

Over the past two months the Municipal Demarcation Board has focused on the following: Developing a framework within which the demarcation process would occur ...

Mines, malls and cellphone masts: how the Constitutional Court confirms the need for municipal approval and government doesn’t seem to want to listen?

In June 2020, the Constitutonal Court handed down an important judgment for local government. In Telkom SA SOC Limited v City of Cape Town and Another, the ...

The issue of mandates and functions continues to occupy the minds of many local government practitioners, and the question of who is responsible for Cape ...

The public has long put pressure on the government to curb the resource wastage at the local level. In a bid to contain this problem, on 7 June 2019, the ...

The recent judgment in the Transvaal Provincial Division case of Summer Symphony Properties 13 CC and BOE Bank v City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and ...

Municipal debt-crisis: Can Eskom reduce bulk electricity supply to defaulting municipalities?

This article discusses whether Eskom can decrease bulk electricity supply to defaulting municipalities in terms of a bulk supply agreement without informing ...

In a recent report to Parliament, the Auditor-General, Shauket Fakie questioned the ability of South African municipalities to continue operating as a going ...