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Monkey Business: A Case Study of Roles and Responsibilities.
The issue of mandates and functions continues to occupy the minds of many local government practitioners, and the question of who is responsible for Cape ...
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Volume 11, Issue 4, October 2009.
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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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From SALGA : Annual General Congress: Focussing on Intergovernmental Relations.
At its Annual General Congress held in Port Elizabeth during July, SALGA delegates reflected on the role organised local government playing in the area of ...
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Volume 1, Issue 3, September 1999
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DDM: Beating the silos, or adding bureaucracy?
In his Presidency Budget Speech in 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa pointed out that government often operates in silos, and lacks coherence in planning and ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023
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Municipal debt-crisis: Can Eskom reduce bulk electricity supply to defaulting municipalities?
This article discusses whether Eskom can decrease bulk electricity supply to defaulting municipalities in terms of a bulk supply agreement without informing ...
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Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2023
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Court stops Eskom from withdrawing funds from Renosterberg Local Municipality’s bank account
The issue of municipal debt to Eskom is an ongoing concern as noted earlier in the Bulletin. The MEC: Northern Cape Provincial Government: Department of ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Court tells the City of Cape Town to exhaust intergovernmental dispute resolution mechanisms
In City of Cape Town v the Minister of Energy, the Court had to decide whether the case between the City of Cape Town and the national Minister responsible for ...
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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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Municipalities and Eskom must work together to secure the well-being of South Africans
Courts have on several occasions delivered judgments which held that Eskom must first exhaust the alternative remedies available to it to hold municipalities ...
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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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Streamlining the administrative burden in Western Cape Municipalities
The School for Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation conducted a research study on the impact of the ...
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Volume 16, Issue 4, October 2021 [Special Issue on Local Government Finance]
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SCA tells Eskom to exhaust alternative dispute resolution before cutting electricity
Eskom is struggling to recover monies owed to it by municipalities for the supply of bulk electricity. Municipal debts to Eskom have ballooned to alarming ...
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Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2021