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Cross-Boundary Municipalities to Dissapear: New Provincial Borders.
Cross-boundary municipalities are set to disappear on the date of the forthcoming elections local government election. On that date, provincial borders and the ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005
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Crossing the floor: Proposed Constitutional Amendments
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has published a proposal to amend Constitutional provisions for municipal elections. The new ...
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Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2002
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Crossing the Floor: The Judgment
On 4 October the Constitutional Court ended a period of political instability that started just less than a year ago with the break up of the Democratic ...
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Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2002
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Crossing the Floor: The Ruls of the Game
The President has signed a set of Bills into law that allow for crossing the floor, This article summarises the Bills insofar as they deal with councillors. ...
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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2002
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DDM: Beating the silos, or adding bureaucracy?
In his Presidency Budget Speech in 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa pointed out that government often operates in silos, and lacks coherence in planning and ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023
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Decentralised Response to HIV & AIDS.
In recent years, many municipalities have started formulating and implementing their HIV and AIDS response strategies and much progress has been made. However, ...
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Volume 9, Issue 1, February/March 2007
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Deepening democracy through municipal councillor oversight
As a result of the wide-spread and intense criticism directed at local government for failing to deliver on its constitutional mandate, a necessity arise for ...
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Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2023
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Defining "Municipal Health Services" The Powers and Functions Debate Continues.
Health services are essential to the well-being and sustainability of every community in South Africa. Municipal health services, in keeping with the ...
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Volume 10, Issue 5, November 2008.
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Defining Local Government Powers: The Need For Guidance.
The powers and functions of local government are listed in schedules 4B and 5B of the Constitution. The schedules list functional areas without detailed ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005
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Democratising local government helps to build and sustain peace
Local governments contribute to fostering peace by working in, and with the communities that reside within them
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Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2023