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Municipalities will play a key role in the government's response to the electricity crisis. In the wake of the recent peak in the ongoing electricity ...

The outcome of the elections of 22 April is critical for local government. The success of ‘developmental local government’ depends to a large extent on the ...

After much anticipation and a lengthy process of review, the new regulations under the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act of 2000 (Procurement Act ) ...

The recent judgment in the appeal case of Munisipaliteit van Ngwane & Vrystaat Munisipale Pesioenfonds 254/ 2002 AD has attracted much attention and comment ...

One step forward, two steps back: 2021 local government elections resulted in lower women’s representation than the last few elections

In our previous article on women’s representation in local government, we reported that the numbers of women elected into office for proportional ...

The Local Government Project conducted a survey of a wide range of current South African service delivery contracts to see how their actual contract terms ...

The Department of Provincial and Local Government held a conference on ward committees on 24-25 June. These are the vehicles through which participatory ...

With the local government elections set for 18 May, political parties are preparing their party policies and manifestos in a bid to woo voters. A survey of the ...

The White Paper on Local Government identified performance management as one of local government's tools for the implementation of its development mandate in ...

The Municipal Finance Management Act which was adopted by Parliament on 26 November 2003, took effect on 1 July 2004. It seeks to modernise and improve ...