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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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Volume 8, Issue 4, September 2006.
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The Strangulation of Local Government: Stifling Innovation, Experimentation and Local Responsiveness
In the past decade, local government has experienced a mass of legislation regulating its functioning. The question is whether the sheer volume, style, nature ...
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Volume 10, Issue 1, February/March 2008
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The Tender Process and Blacklisted Suppliers.
The courts view the blacklisting of suppliers by the National Treasury in a very serious light and confirm that organs of state are allowed to cancel contracts ...
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Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2010
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The Toilet War.
The City of Cape Town built unenclosed toilets in Makhaza, an informal settlement in Ward 95 of Khayelitsha. It did so on the understanding that the community ...
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Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010.
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The viability of e-techniques towards service delivery in municipalities
The demands posed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the introduction of e-services by municipalities globally. Just ...
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Volume 16, Issue 5, November/December 2021
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The Windhoek Declaration: Africa's Vision on Decentralisation.
At the Africities 2000 summit, held in Windhoek on 15-20 May 2000, ministers of local government and of finance on the African continent, mayors, leaders and ...
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Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2000
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The Winds of Change: Local Government Gaining Momentum
Decentralisation and Local Government are fast becoming buzz words of African governments busy reconfiguring their state structure. This has not always been ...
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Volume 9, Issue 1, February/March 2007
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The Withholding of Rates and Taxes in Five Municipalities.
The Community Law Centre, in partnership with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and SALGA, recently completed a research project on the ...
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Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2010
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Toward Transformation
On 26 July 2000, Minister Mufamadi established a Special Task Team for the Establishment of Municipalities (STT) to assist provinces in dealing with problem ...
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Volume 2, Issue 4, November 2000
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Towards a Professionalised Management at Local Government
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has published proposed amendments to the Municipal Systems Act which will do much to ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010