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Removing Elected Councillors Will Create Chaos.
Widespread disgruntlement over allegations thatcandidates nominated by communities had been irregularly removed by the ANC led to a promise by President Jacob ...
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Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2011.
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Report on the State of Local Government.
This is a shortened version of the address by Yunus Carrim, Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Leadership, to the Institute of Local ...
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Volume 11, Issue 5, November/December 2009
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Responsibilites of Municipal Managers: The Municipal Finance Management Act
The Municipal Finance Management Act is a very prescriptive piece of legislation and should not be read piecemeal, but worked through as a whole. Many chapters ...
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Volume 6, Issue 2, May 2004
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Rogue leadership and lawlessness in Kannaland Municipality
More than half of Kannaland Local Municipality’s population lives in poverty. Improved access to water and sanitation, well-maintained roads, adequate parks ...
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Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2022
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Rules and Orders: The Building Blocks of Good Governance
How does a municipality make its decision-making procedures clear and legally sound? How does it ensure that every councillor participate meaningfully in ...
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Volume 10, Issue 2, April/ May 2008.
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Rules for the sometimes unruly
The Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs published a Code of Conduct for Councillors on 14 June 2023 (the new code of conduct). This ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023
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Safeguarding the integrity of councillors and senior managers in local government
On 12 April 2022, the Dullah Omar Insitute (DOI) convened a webinar on 'Safeguarding the integrity of councillors and senior managers in local government'. ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Salaries Scale Upwards For Mayors, Managers and Councillors.
National government recently gazetted new and bigger remuneration packages for municipal councillors. The proposal sees a big jump in salaries for all ...
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Volume 8, Issue 2, May 2006.
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Separating Party Politics From Governance.
The report by COGTA on the state of South African local government clearly identifies interference by political parties as a cause of the ‘dysfunctionality’ ...
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Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2010.
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Service Delivery Protests: Less Frequent, More Violent.
Community protests have become almost commonplace in South Africa. In 2009 protest activity reached a peak of 17.75 protests every month, on average. This ...
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Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2011.