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A New Role For Provincial Treasuries
The Municipal Finance Management Act gives provincial treasuries an important role in supervising municipalities. Whereas the provincial Departments of Local ...
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Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2004
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Applying the New Section 139 Intervention Powers: Issues Arising from Practice.
Section 139 of the Constitution permits a provincial government to intervene in the affairs of a municipality under certain specified circumstances of ...
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Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2005.
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Assignment to Local Government
When the new Premier of the Western Cape took office in January 2002, he vowed to devolve as many provincial functions as possible onto local authorities which ...
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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2002
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Calming the "Cape storm" Intergovernmental Relations in Action.
The highly politicised dispute in the City if Cape Town about a proposed change in the system of governance from an executive mayoral system to an executive ...
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Volume 8, Issue 5, November 2006.
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Co-Operative Government at Work.
Earlier this year, the City of Cape Town entered into an innovative public -public partnership with the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. This is a ...
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Volume 5, Issue 4, September 2003.
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Co-operative Government in the Systems Bill
Section 3 of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Bill provides that (1) Municipalities must within the constitutional system of co-operative governance ...
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Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2000
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Community Development Workers.
In his 2003 State of the Nation Address, President Thabo Mbeki announced that "government will create a public service echelon of mutli-skilled community ...
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Volume 7, Issue 5, November 2005
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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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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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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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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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Cross-Boundary Municipalities to Dissapear: New Provincial Borders.
Cross-boundary municipalities are set to disappear on the date of the forthcoming elections local government election. On that date, provincial borders and the ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005