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Coping With Crunch Time: What the Recession Means For Local Government.
Municipalities have already passed their budgets for the 2009/10 municipal financial year, and are beginnin g to finalise financial statements for 2008/09. ...
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Volume 11, Issue 3, August 2009
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Councillors Can Have Their Say: Privilege in Council
Section 161 of the Constitution and section 28 of the Municipal Structures Act protect the freedom of speech of councillors (subject to the council's rules and ...
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Volume 5, Issue 2, May 2003
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Councillors Can Have Their Say: Immunity in Council.
For a democracy to be vibrant, councillors must have the freedom to speak their minds in council. This freedom is protected by the Constitution and the ...
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Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2006.
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Councillors' individual liability
On 11 June 2008, the Cape High Court handed down a judgment that set an important precedent about councillors’ individual liability for taking or supporting ...
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Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2008
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Counting the Cents: Municipal Budgets and Mayors Responsibilities Under the MFMA.
A new era has dawned in municipal finances with the enactment of the Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003. The main objective of the MFMA is to ensure ...
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Volume 6, Issue 2, May 2004
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Court clarifies the interpretation and application of a Municipal Spatial Development Framework
In Choisy-Le-Roi Owners v The Municipality of Stellenbosch the Court addressed the question of how a Municipality’s Spatial Development Framework (‘MSDF’) ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Court Condemns Political Interference in Municipal Appointment.
This judgment deals with the appointment of a municipal manager in a district municipality. It contains the strongest signal yet that the law condemns the ...
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Volume 11, Issue 1 February 2009
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Court invalidates an unlawful contract and holds officials personally liable for unauthorised and irregular expenditure
The case of Imvusa Trading 1581 BK v Oudtshoorn Municipality is about a monetary claim arising from a contract between the Oudtshoorn Local Municipality and ...
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Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2022
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Court orders City of Cape Town not to remove political banners of the EFF
In the Economic Freedom Fighters v City of Cape Town and Another, the court dealt with a case brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) against the City ...
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Volume 16, Issue 5, November/December 2021
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Court orders national government to leapfrog into Lekwa Local Municipality
Failed service delivery at municipal level is not a new phenomenon. In recent times, however, communities, non-governmental organisations and private companies ...
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Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021
