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Towards increased fiscal and operational sustainability in Western Cape Local Municipalities

The School for Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation conducted a research study on the impact of the ...

Traditional leaders, municipalities and land use management: Who does what?

On the 20th of October 2022, the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation South Africa held a webinar under the theme ...

The position of traditional leaders in local government was the last hurdle that had to be crossed before the election date could be announced by the Minister ...

The Traditional Leadership and Governance White Paper was launched by the Department of Provincial and Local Government on 29 April 2002. Provision was made ...

The research was undertaken by Hirsh Jain, a Harvard Law School visiting fellow at the Community Law Centre. This article summarises Jain’s findings relating ...

Municipal managers are well paid-too well, it has sometimes been argued. Many wonder why the head public servants of local government should earn more than ...

Elsana Quarry, a mining company, was granted mining rights on a farm situated within the jurisdiction of the Swartland Municipality. The municipality requested ...

Africa has a rich history of indigenous and traditional forms of local government. However, lack of coherence between local government and traditional forms ...

“Scaling Up for Success” was the theme of the Fourth South African AIDS Conference, held in Durban from 29 March to 3 April 2009. It aimed to “take stock of ...

Section 14 of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) read with the Municipal Supply Chain Management Regulations issued in terms of the of the MMFA ...