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In response to widespread and ongoing service delivery protests across South Africa, Parliament has established a special committee to investigate and gather ...

The delivery of municipal services by external providers is strictly regulated. Not only do the general constitutional requirements for procurement apply, but ...

Elsana Quarry, a mining company, was granted mining rights on a farm situated within the jurisdiction of the Swartland Municipality. The municipality requested ...

In the last decade we have seen a shift in the way local government is conceived-socially, politically and in the legal context. The changes status of local ...

South Africa has one of the most progressive legislative and policy frameworks for water services in the world, which includes a constitutional right of access ...

“Water is life, sanitation is dignity.” This is the cornerstone of the Strategic Framework for Water Services published by the Department of Water Affairs and ...

Section 156(1) of the Constitution is the basis for the status of local government in the Constitution. It provides that municipalities have authority over the ...

Food security is typically and administratively considered the exclusive concerns of national and provincial government, but a plausible case can be made that ...

The COVID19 pandemic has emphasised the importance of local government. Apart from delivering essential services and helping to mitigate the adverse impact of ...

Since the declaration of the state of national disaster by the Minister of Cooperative Government on 18 March 2020, and the subsequent announcement of a ...