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Holding onto the Family Silver: Powers of MEC's in Respect of Certain Financial Matters.
Prior to the previous amalgamation process, some municipal councils engaged in measures designed to bind the succeeding councils into an array of long term ...
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Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2000
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Holding the Municipal Executive To Account
The accountability of the executive to the council is a cardinal principle of good governance. Information flow is essential to holding it accountable for its ...
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Volume 10, Issue 2, April/ May 2008.
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Implications of Non-Compliance With Treasuries Competency Requirements.
In 2007, in response to the capacity constraints bedevilling local government, the National Treasury issued regulations setting out minimum competency ...
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Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2011.
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Intergovernmental Relations in the Western Cape
The need for an intergovernmental structure was identified in order to streamline the transformation process in the Western Cape.
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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2002
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Intervening into Warrenton
On 17 February 1999, the provincial executive of the Northern Cape Province intervened into the Warrenton municipality On 16 March, the matter was reported to ...
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Volume 1, Issue 2, July 1999
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Interventions in Municipalities: Amendment to section 139 of the Constitution.
The Second Constitutional Amendment Act of 2003 dramatically increases the powers of provincial government to intervene in a municipality, through amendments ...
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Volume 5, Issue 2, May 2003
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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
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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, crime, by-laws, and law enforcement
This article discusses some of the highlights of the preliminary report on "The state of local government law enforcement” prepared by the Institute for ...
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Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023
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Municipal Debts Are Rising.
In a recent report to Parliament, the Auditor-General, Shauket Fakie questioned the ability of South African municipalities to continue operating as a going ...
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Volume 6, Issue 5, November 2004