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The Children’s Amendment Act (Act 41 of 2007) was signed into law on 18 March this year. The Act, together with draft regulations recently published for public ...

Municipalities are key institutions in bringing about sustainable human settlements that respond adequately to the challenges and implications of the HIV and ...

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 ...

“Water is life, sanitation is dignity.” This is the cornerstone of the Strategic Framework for Water Services published by the Department of Water Affairs and ...

Section 156(1) of the Constitution is the basis for the status of local government in the Constitution. It provides that municipalities have authority over the ...

Local economic development (LED) in South Africa has received considerable attention in recent months. This has ranged from LED-related conferences to the ...

In response to widespread and ongoing service delivery protests across South Africa, Parliament has established a special committee to investigate and gather ...

The delivery of municipal services by external providers is strictly regulated. Not only do the general constitutional requirements for procurement apply, but ...

Elsana Quarry, a mining company, was granted mining rights on a farm situated within the jurisdiction of the Swartland Municipality. The municipality requested ...

The Gauteng Development Tribunal was making land use management decisions and bypassing municipal land-use planning processes on the basis of the DFA. The SCA ...