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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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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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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
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Dissolution of the Lekwa Teemane Council.
On 21 January 2004 the Provincial Executive of the North West approved a resolution to dissolve the Lekwa Teemane Local Council in terms of section 139 (1) (c) ...
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Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2004
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District Management Areas: Municipal Demarcation Board Changes Policy.
The Municipal Structures Act of 1998 mandates the Municipal Demarcation Board to declare part of an area that must have both district and local municipalities ...
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Volume 7, Issue 3, July 2005
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Electing Woman Councillors: 50/50 Representation?
With the upcoming local government election drawing closer, gender representation has become an issue once again. The use of a quota policy to address the ...
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Volume 7, Issue 5, November 2005
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Equal Gender Representation? Audit of Local Government
Salga conducted an audit to determine the extent to which woman are represented and participate in local government. It focused on two areas: the elected ...
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Volume 6, Issue 4, September 2004.
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Executive Commitees: Proportional or Fair Representation?
The recent debate over plans to change the type of government in the City of Cape Town raised some interesting questions about the composition of executive ...
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Volume 8, Issue 5, November 2006.
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Expanded Public Works Programme: Role of the Municipalities.
The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) will spend R15 to 20 billion on labour-intensive projects by 2009. The short-term goal is to create a million ...
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Volume 7, Issue 5, November 2005
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Extension of the ban on political party positions to all municipal staff does not survive in Labour Court
The professionalisation of local government has been high on the government’s agenda for over two decades. This is against the background that political ...
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Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2024