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Responsibilites of Municipal Managers: The Municipal Finance Management Act
The Municipal Finance Management Act is a very prescriptive piece of legislation and should not be read piecemeal, but worked through as a whole. Many chapters ...
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Volume 6, Issue 2, May 2004
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Gender and the Budget.
While budgets have been instrumental in transmitting and reproducing gender biases, they also offer the possibility for transforming existing gender ...
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Volume 6, Issue 2, May 2004
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Supply Chain Management under the Municipal Finance Management Act
Municipalities and municipal entities will have to read carefully when acquiring goods or services or when disposing of goods when the Municipal Finance ...
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Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2004
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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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Guidelines For Ward Committees: Strengthening Participatory Governance
Following a national conference on ward committees in June 2003, the Department of Provincial and Local Government published its long awaited Draft Guidelinies ...
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Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2004
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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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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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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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Budget Meetings Behind Closed Doors? Interpreting the Systems Act on Public Access to Meetings.
Can mayoral committees and executive committees hold meetings behind closed doors about critical issues like draft by-laws or draft budgets? Does section 20 of ...
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Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2005
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Local Government Capacity 2004: Municipal Demarcation Board's National Report.
The Municipal Demarcation Board has released its 2004/2005 local government capacity assessment report. It showed a steady increase in both the range and level ...
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Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2005