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Fixing the gaps in whistleblower protection: developments from 2023 – 2024

Local government’s challenges are exacerbated by corruption. It results in wasteful and fruitless expenditure, compromises service delivery, and increases ...

Since the declaration of the state of national disaster by the Minister of Cooperative Government on 18 March 2020, and the subsequent announcement of a ...

Who is liable to pay the municipal accounts of defaulting tenants?

The duty to create and maintain a sound supply chain management system is an essential component of the good governance of any municipality. While the ...

In the 2008 Local Government Budgets and Expenditure Review, the National Treasury analyses how municipalities have been funded since 2003/2004 and how they ...

There are a number of legislative grounds upon which a municipal manager may reject a tender bid. One such ground is provided in the Municipal Supply Chain ...

Bid committees can be described as the engine rooms that give effect to a municipalities’ supply chain management policy. The work of these committees is ...

In recent months the courts have stressed the importance of the roles and functions of these committees. Contracts have been set aside because bid committees ...

In a recent Supreme Court of Appeal decision, CC Groenewald v M5 Developments, the court held that the unsuccessful bidders had a right, under section 62 of ...

On 22 April 2010, the Minister for CooperativeGovernance and Traditional Affairs, Sicelo Shiceka, presented Parliament with his department’s budget vote for ...