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Court tells the City of Cape Town to exhaust intergovernmental dispute resolution mechanisms
In City of Cape Town v the Minister of Energy, the Court had to decide whether the case between the City of Cape Town and the national Minister responsible for ...
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Local Government in South Africa: Responses to urban-rural challenges
The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) is one of 18 international partners of the LoGov project titled ‘Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay’. The ...
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Municipalities and Eskom must work together to secure the well-being of South Africans
Courts have on several occasions delivered judgments which held that Eskom must first exhaust the alternative remedies available to it to hold municipalities ...
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The declaration and publication of financial interests of local councillors in The Netherlands and South Africa
Democracies are built on trust. Citizens must be able to trust that their elected local councillors, members of Parliament and heads of government are honest ...
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The declaration and publication of the financial interests of councillors and senior managers: what the law says
In 2021, Julius Malema MP was a director of Mgagao Shamba Pty (Ltd), a farming company. Furthermore, he received two gifts, namely whiskey from Kgantontle ...
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The Local Government Ethical Leadership Initiative
The Local Government Ethical Leadership Initiative (LGELI) was launched in December 2020 as a partnership project between the Ethics Institute, the national ...
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Court clarifies the interpretation and application of a Municipal Spatial Development Framework
In Choisy-Le-Roi Owners v The Municipality of Stellenbosch the Court addressed the question of how a Municipality’s Spatial Development Framework (‘MSDF’) ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Court stops Eskom from withdrawing funds from Renosterberg Local Municipality’s bank account
The issue of municipal debt to Eskom is an ongoing concern as noted earlier in the Bulletin. The MEC: Northern Cape Provincial Government: Department of ...
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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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Municipal Systems Amendment of 2022: Will it depoliticise municipal administration?
In May 2022, Parliament passed the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill which regulates many aspects of municipal administration. The Bill is not new. It was ...
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