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Can traditional leaders exercise their land allocation authority to block developments in their areas of jurisdiction?

In a series of judgments, the courts have made it clear that the unlawful practice of allocating municipal land by some unscrupulous traditional leaders needs ...

Court prohibits a traditional leader from allocating municipal land

In November 2022, an article which examined the implications of the Lepelle Nkumpi Local Municipality v The Bakgaga Ba Ga-Mphalele Traditional Authority and ...

The North West Provincial Intergovernmental Forum was officially launched in July 1997.

Municipalities play a critical role in service delivery, development and democracy. What is often forgotten in the assessment of local government is that, ...

Resistance to SPLUMA: The “exclusion” of traditional leaders from the Municipal Planning Tribunal

This article is the third in a series of articles that analyse the five major reasons why traditional leaders rejected the implementation of Spatial Planning ...

Resistance to SPLUMA: Traditional leaders' lack of trust in SPLUMA instruments and processes

The article forms part of a series of articles which examines the five major reasons traditional leaders opposed the implementation of the Spatial Planning and ...

Resistance to SPLUMA: Traditional leaders' lack of trust in municipalities

This is the final article of a series of articles which examines the five major reasons why traditional leaders rejected the implementation of the Spatial ...

The invasion of municipal land: A view from practice

Local government is partially responsible for fulfilling the right to housing. This responsibility is not without challenges.

The limits of the power of traditional leaders to allocate land

Over the past two years, the Local Government Bulletin has published a series of articles examining judgments concerning the power of traditional leaders to ...

All organs of state have been required to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by putting in place measures targeted at containing the virus. In urban areas, it is ...