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Legal Briefs: When Does A Councillor Take Office?
Does a candidate become a councillor on the day of the election or on the day that he or she is sworn in? This matter is important in relation to matters such ...
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Volume 8, Issue 2, May 2006.
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Local AIDS Councils and the Civic Role of Local Government.
There is widespread consensus that the severity of the HIV and AIDS epidemic cannot be curbed by the government on its own. In light of this realisation, the ...
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Volume 9, Issue 4,September/ October 2007.
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Local government elections
Recent amendments to the Constitution, read with certain provisions of the Municipal Structures Act, have the effect that the elections for local government, ...
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Volume 1, Issue 1, April 1999
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Local Government in South Africa: Responses to urban-rural challenges
The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) is one of 18 international partners of the LoGov project titled ‘Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay’. The ...
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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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Local Government is in Good Health.
The core principles, values and features of the new local government system are sound. This is the conclusion of the national Portfolio Committee on Local ...
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Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2003
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Making Headlines: Dismissal of Councillors ini Gauteng
More than 100 municipal councillors and officials have been dismissed or forced to resign over the past five years in Gauteng's municipalities following ...
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Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2006.
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Making Headlines: Intergovernmental Relations Framework Act Finally in Operation.
The Intergovernmental Relations Act 13 of 2005 was signed into law by the President on 10 August and took effect on 15 August 2005. The implementation of the ...
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Volume 7, Issue 4, September 2005
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Making Local Government Work Better
Knowledge creation and sharing are intensified at the annual Knowledge Week gatherings at the DBSA, as development practitioners interact and debate current ...
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Volume 11, Issue 5, November/December 2009
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Mayoral Committees off the Hook? High Court Rules Against Proportinality.
After taking office in December 2000, the Executive mayor of Johannesburg Metropolitan municipality appointed a mayoral committee in terms of section 60 of the ...
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Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2001
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Mayoral Committees: The Mayor Appoints
The mayoral committee is appointed at the discretion of the executive mayor. It therefore need not include other parties on a proportional basis.
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Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2003