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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
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2021 Local Elections, Governance and Stability
During the run-up to the local government (LG) elections, it is not uncommon for turbulence to arise in municipalities because of the potential shifts that can ...
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Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2020
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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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Gauteng High Court deals decisively with councillor-walk-outs
Perhaps the most important aspect of the job of a councillor is to attend council and committee meetings. Item 3 of the Code of Conduct for Councillors ...
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Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2020
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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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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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The power to preside over disciplinary appeals
The Constitution provides that “everyone has a right to administrative action that is lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair”. This entitlement extends to ...
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Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2008