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Setting Service Delivery Targets.
During the past two months, the newly elected government has emphasised the important role that local government must play in meeting the challenges of ...
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Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2004
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Stable coalition governments: It matters how the cake is cut
Looming in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic is the 2021 Local Government (LG) elections that must take place within 90 days of the date of the expiry of the ...
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Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2020
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Stepping aside, But then What? How the ANC's Resolution affects councillors
The African National Congress (ANC) is implementing a resolution, which provides that members who face criminal charges for corruption, must ‘step aside’. It ...
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Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2021
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Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks: Changing Municipal Boundaries.
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) is entrusted with the often difficult task of demarcating municipal boundaries. Disputes around cross-boundary ...
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Volume 8, Issue 4, September 2006.
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Supply Chain Management and Public-Private Partnership Provisions.
Chapter 11 of the Municipal Finance Management Act came into force on 1 July 2004. This chapter contains provisions that strictly regulate the acquiring of ...
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Volume 6, Issue 4, September 2004.
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Terms of Reference for Political Structures and Political Office Bearers
Every municipal council has the right to to determine its internal procedures. This right is protected by section 160 of the Constitution, which allows a ...
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Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2002
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The ‘download’ on personal information: The Protection of Personal Information Act and Municipalities
In an age of information warfare, identity theft and the mismanagement and commercialisation of personal information in the digital world, the right to privacy ...
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Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2021
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The Budget Vote for Local Government.
On 22 April 2010, the Minister for CooperativeGovernance and Traditional Affairs, Sicelo Shiceka, presented Parliament with his department’s budget vote for ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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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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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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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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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022