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Landfill sites are excellent opportunities for municipalities to develop Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, but the window of opportunity for ...

The coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, is wreaking havoc across the world and South Africa is no exception. On 15 March, President Cyril ...

This article summarises and discusses the COVID-19 Disaster Response Directions targeting provinces, municipalities and traditional leaders. They were adopted ...

Municipalities and Eskom must work together to secure the well-being of South Africans

Courts have on several occasions delivered judgments which held that Eskom must first exhaust the alternative remedies available to it to hold municipalities ...

Food security is typically and administratively considered the exclusive concerns of national and provincial government, but a plausible case can be made that ...

Municipalities may not charge fees to protestors for security and traffic control services

The right to protest is essential to South Africa’s constitutional order. Protests played an important role in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to the ...

The Division of Revenue Bill 2007, introduced by the Minister of Finance, Trevor Manual, sets out the allocations local government will receive for the ...

The Supreme Court of Appeal recently examined the processes surrounding the changing of town names and the extent to which they must facilitate public ...

The powers and functions shared between provincial and local government have traditionally been a source of great confusion and concern for municipalities. ...

The Structures Amendment Act 33 has of 2000 allocated functions that were traditionally local municipalities functions to district municipalities.