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Land-grabbing: Municipalities must uphold the Constitution when dealing with unlawful occupiers
Land-grabbing is a term that captures the story of land dispossession in South Africa. The term has its roots in our apartheid history in which the ...
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Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2022
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Limits on Withholding Municipal Clearance Certificate.
In City of Cape Town v Real People Housing (77/09) [2009] ZASCA 159 (30 November 2009), the Supreme Court of Appeal clarified the meaning of section 118(1) of ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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Local Government is in Good Health.
The core principles, values and features of the new local government system are sound. This is the conclusion of the national Portfolio Committee on Local ...
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Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2003
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Local government waste management and the achievement of Commitment 5 of the Green Economy Accord
The article elucidates how technological, human, economic, and social capacity at the local government level have contributed to achieving Commitment 5 of the ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023
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Local government, crime, by-laws, and law enforcement
This article discusses some of the highlights of the preliminary report on "The state of local government law enforcement” prepared by the Institute for ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023
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Making Local Economic Development Work: Some Reflections From the Field.
Local economic development (LED) in South Africa has received considerable attention in recent months. This has ranged from LED-related conferences to the ...
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Volume 11, Issue 4, October 2009.
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Mines, malls and cellphone masts: how the Constitutional Court confirms the need for municipal approval and government doesn’t seem to want to listen?
In June 2020, the Constitutonal Court handed down an important judgment for local government. In Telkom SA SOC Limited v City of Cape Town and Another, the ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Municipal Duties to Occupiers Facing Evictions From Private Land.
While a number of recent judgments have confirmed the duty of municipalities to ‘meaningfully engage’ with unlawful occupiers before seeking to evict them from ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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Municipal enterprises in the energy sector: A case of Germany
This article explores how municipalities in Germany are dealing with the energy shortage since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and outlines the legal ...
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Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2023
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Municipal Police Services
Visible policing has long been considered as indispensable in the fight against crime and lawlessness. Quick-fix solutions such as rent-a-cop schemes, were put ...
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Volume 1, Issue 2, July 1999