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The Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan.
Each municipality classified as high capacity in terms of the Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003 is required to compile a service delivery and budget ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005
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Using a section 106 inquiry to investigate theft?
Section 106 of the Municipal Systems Act of 2000 empowers the MEC for local government to request information or to appoint an investigator(s) if he or she has ...
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Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2023
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Vision 2011 and 2014 of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
At the Local Government Bulletin’s tenth anniversary conference, Mr Elroy Africa, the acting director-general of the Department of Cooperative Governance and ...
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Volume 11, Issue 3, August 2009
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What happens to interventions after the local government elections?
Too many municipalities are not functioning as they should. The Auditor General has repeatedly reported municipalities’ poor financial management (see ...
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Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021
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When the turkey snubs Christmas: The MEC’s power to convene council meetings instead of the speaker
Municipal council meetings are central to local democracy. It is where the municipal executive accounts, municipal policies and by-laws are adopted, and ...
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Volume 18, Issue 4, November/December 2023
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Who Appoints the Municipal Manager?
In terms of section 82 of the Municipal Structures Act, not only a municipal council can appoint a municipal manager. Furthermore, section 30 (5) of the ...
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Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2004
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Who Can Dismiss a Municipal Manager?
The recent controversy surrounding the municipal manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality raised important questions regarding which sphere of ...
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Volume 7, Issue 3, July 2005
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Why are traditional leaders rejecting the implementation of SPLUMA?
This article is the first instalment in a series of articles that unpack the five main reasons behind the rejection of the Spatial Planning and Land Use ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023