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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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Intergovernmetal Relations Framework BIll: The Place for Local Government.
The intergovernmental relations framework bill, tabled in Parliament in February, establishes and entrenches the role and place of local government in our ...
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Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2005.
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Outsourcing Municipal Services and Skills Transfer.
The Local Government Project conducted a survey of a wide range of current South African service delivery contracts to see how their actual contract terms ...
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Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2005.
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KwaZulu-Natal's New Premier Co-ordinating Forum
On 19 April 2005, a new intergovernmental forum was launched for the provincial government and municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal. The Forum reflects the ...
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Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2005
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President's Co-ordinating Council Meets.
The President's Co-ordinating Council is a consultative forum for the President to raise matters of national interest with Premiers and organised local ...
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Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2005
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Service Delivery Agreements: Who Reads Them?
Who can own up to having read a standard service delivery agreement from start to finish and having understood it all? Very few people, i imagine. In the main, ...
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Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2005
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United Cities and Local Governments of Africa: Crystallisation of Local Government in Africa.
Africa has a rich history of indigenous and traditional forms of local government. However, lack of coherence between local government and traditional forms ...
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Volume 7, Issue 3, July 2005
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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
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Defining Local Government Powers: The Need For Guidance.
The powers and functions of local government are listed in schedules 4B and 5B of the Constitution. The schedules list functional areas without detailed ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005
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From the Courts: Outdated Ordinances- A constitutional Headache
This case highlights the need for provincial governments to carefully re-evaluate all ordinances predating the constitutional dispensation because in all ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005