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When examining failure of local government to deliver services, a lack of funds and lack of capacity, the failure to spend allocated budgets and lagging ...

Constitutional democracies are often ‘messy’. Systems in a democracy are largely dependent on a number of processes. If these processes are not synchronised, ...

Tariff and debt collection policies are of paramount importance for local government. Local government derives most of its revenue from the levying of rates ...

Every municipal council has the right to to determine its internal procedures. This right is protected by section 160 of the Constitution, which allows a ...

On 3 June 2003, Minister Sydney Mufamadi published a notice for all nine provinces which revokes authorisation in terms of section 84 (3) of the Municipal ...

The ‘download’ on personal information: The Protection of Personal Information Act and Municipalities

In an age of information warfare, identity theft and the mismanagement and commercialisation of personal information in the digital world, the right to privacy ...

The last issue of the LGB highlighted some key battlegrounds in the 2011 local elections. This issue looks at the aftermath.

Butterworth, an industrial and business centre halfway between East London and the former Transkei capital of Umtata, made history as the first municipality to ...

Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the term ‘BRIC’ in 2009 as an abbreviation for a group of four emerging economies that were growing relatively fast- ...

On 22 April 2010, the Minister for CooperativeGovernance and Traditional Affairs, Sicelo Shiceka, presented Parliament with his department’s budget vote for ...