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EU-Africa strategy: A way out of poverty?
The Good Governance Learning Network is a loose network of South African NGO's that focuses on promoting good governance. It is funded by the Ford Foundation ...
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Making Headlines
Gauteng has officially been declared a global city region. It is set to become the 12th largest metropolitan settlement in the world by 2015. Gauteng is ...
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Municipalities and Clean Development Projects.
The emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is a major factor in climate change. The most recent scientific evidence shows that global warming is ...
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The Duty to Involve the Public: The Constitutional Court Speaks.
The Constitutional Twelfth Amendment Act altered the basis for determining provincial boundaries and resulted in, among other things, in the changing of ...
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Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks: Changing Municipal Boundaries.
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) is entrusted with the often difficult task of demarcating municipal boundaries. Disputes around cross-boundary ...
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The State of Our Cities.
The South African Cities Network recently released its 2006 State of the Cities Report. This report is an update of the 2004 report, which looked at how cities ...
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When Everything is Political: A Customer Care Model For Local Government.
A mayor was called to a community meeting. People had been promised houses, but where were they? The mayor had no houses handy and she had not made the ...
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Who Wants to be President When You Can be Mayor: Career Patterns of Local Government Politicians: The Case of Metropolitan Mayors.
Local Government is emerging as a strong third sphere of government. Within local government, metropolitan cities are coming out as powerful institutions. ...
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Calming the "Cape storm" Intergovernmental Relations in Action.
The highly politicised dispute in the City if Cape Town about a proposed change in the system of governance from an executive mayoral system to an executive ...
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District Intergovernmental Forums: Measuring Compliance With the Act.
The Intergovernmental Relations Framework Act requires that, within one year of its coming into operation, districts must have established district ...
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