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Do municipalities have the exclusive right to administer refuse removal services and to impose relevant fees in their areas?
Time and again, the place and role of local government under the new constitutional dispensation is brought under the microscope. What are municipalities ...
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Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2024
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Draft Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill.
On 6 May this year, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform published a Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill for public comment, with a ...
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Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2011.
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Electricity Restructuring: Short-Circuting Municpalities?
Important recent developments in the electricity distribution industry (EDI) could have a significant impact on municipalities. A recent court challenge raises ...
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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2002
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eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality vs COVID-19: 90 days into the Lockdown
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 ...
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Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2020
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Evictions: Municipalities and the Constitution: The Right to Housing.
Two court cases dealing with evictions: Case One: Vanessa Ross v South Peninsula Municipality (1999) JOL 5298 (C). Case Two: Grootboom and Others v Oostenberg ...
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Volume 1, Issue 4 December 1999
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Factors affecting local governance
How can we improve the quality of governance in municipalities? What do we need to do in local government to promote stability, allow development to take ...
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Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2020
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Fault Lines Around Water Service Delivery.
South Africa has one of the most progressive legislative and policy frameworks for water services in the world, which includes a constitutional right of access ...
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Volume 11, Issue 1 February 2009
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Five time’s a charm? Thubakgale and Others v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Others
What recourse do citizens have when the State fails to realise the fundamental right of access to housing? Five recent judgments have affirmed the 133 ...
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Volume 18, Issue 4, November/December 2023
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From SALGA: Bringing the NLTTA in Line with the New Local Government Dispensation.
The Portfolio Committee on Transport convened a public hearing on the implementation of the National Land Transport Transition Act (NLTTA) at Parliament on 4 ...
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Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2002
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From SALGA: immigration Bill: Another Unfunded Mandate?
This is an abbreviated version of SALGA's submission to the joint session of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs and the Select Committee on ...
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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2002