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Budget Meetings Behind Closed Doors? Interpreting the Systems Act on Public Access to Meetings.
Can mayoral committees and executive committees hold meetings behind closed doors about critical issues like draft by-laws or draft budgets? Does section 20 of ...
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Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2005
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Building capacity at the municipal level to develop the local economic development potential of marine resources
Coastal and marine management is a potential area of focus for municipalities in their local economic development initiatives. However, the local government ...
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Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2022
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Can councillors be legally prohibited from engaging residents and/or advisors before an item is tabled in a Committee or Council?
Matters affecting municipalities have become more and more important to residents. Given the constitutional objective to encourage the involvement of ...
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Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2020
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Challenges for the New Councils
The election on 5 December 2000 was the formal beginning of the new local government dispensation, Local government was established as the primary site for ...
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Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2006.
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Coalition governments: Guidelines for coalition agreements
At the time of writing the first article on coalitions (published in the Bulletin in September 2020), the local government (LG) elections were a year away. In ...
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Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2021
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Coalitions in local government: ideas for law reform
Coalition politics in local government, particularly in some of the country’s metropolitan municipalities continues to dominate the news for all the wrong ...
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Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2023
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Collecting Service Debts: Constitutional Court Speaks.
A recent judgment by the Constitutional Court confirms that the electricity and water charges owed to a municipality must be paid before a property can be ...
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Volume 6, Issue 5, November 2004
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Communities Providing Services.
The Constitution mandates local government to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner and to encourage the involvement of ...
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Volume 7, Issue 5, November 2005
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Community Development Workers.
In his 2003 State of the Nation Address, President Thabo Mbeki announced that "government will create a public service echelon of mutli-skilled community ...
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Volume 7, Issue 5, November 2005
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Community Participation and Ward Committees
While ward committees are known to communities, they continue to attract fierce criticism. Many communities are disillusioned and feel that participation in ...
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Volume 13, Issue 1, April 2011.