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Financial interests of councillors: do municipalities make them public?
Item 8 of the Code of Conduct for Councillors provides that each councillor must, within 60 days of his or her election (or appointment as a local ...
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Volume 18, Issue 4, November/December 2023
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The Spanish local government system: A model designed for stability
With the advent of the new democratic system in 1978, after 40 years of authoritarian regime, the concern of decision-makers designing local political ...
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Volume 18, Issue 4, November/December 2023
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Measuring transparency, public participation and oversight in the budget processes of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities
The Metro Open Budget Survey (Metro OBS) is modelled on the global Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiated by the International Budget Partnership in 2006. The OBS ...
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Volume 14, Issue 2, December 2019
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Impact of the declaration of invalidity of the Municipal Systems Amendment Act of 2011
Background: On 9 March 2017, the Constitutional Court (the Court) confirmed a decision of the High Court, which had declared the Local Government: Municipal ...
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Volume 14, Issue 1, September 2019
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Amendment of the Local Government Municipal Structures Act: Is local government finally structured for success?
On 21 February 2019 the then Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Zweli Mkhize, delivered his address on the Municipal Structures ...
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Volume 14, Issue 1, September 2019
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Can councillors be legally prohibited from engaging residents and/or advisors before an item is tabled in a Committee or Council?
Matters affecting municipalities have become more and more important to residents. Given the constitutional objective to encourage the involvement of ...
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Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2020
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Municipalities and COVID-19: What the national disaster management directions mean for municipal governance
This article summarises and discusses the COVID-19 Disaster Response Directions targeting provinces, municipalities and traditional leaders. They were adopted ...
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Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2020
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Amending Municipal Governance Laws: New Rules, New Directions? A focus on the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill
After the 2019 national and provincial government elections, Parliament revived deliberations on the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill. The Bill seeks to ...
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Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2020
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Factors affecting local governance
How can we improve the quality of governance in municipalities? What do we need to do in local government to promote stability, allow development to take ...
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Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2020
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Women as candidates in Local Government Elections: What can we learn from the past?
Evidence has shown that women are more actively involved in elections as voters, than as candidates in local government elections. In the 2016 elections, for ...
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Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2020