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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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Provincial Supervision of the New Municipalities: The Challenges ahead
The Constitution requires from provinces to monitor, support and, if necessary intervene in a municipality. The new local government dispensation, establishing ...
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Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2000
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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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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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From the Courts: Firing the mayor with a 'double barrelled' motion
Marais v Democratic Alliance 2002 (2) BCLR 171 (C)
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Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2002
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Province not Liable for Municipal Debts.
MEC for Local Government, Mpumalanga v IMATU 2002 (1) SA 76 (SCA)
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Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2002
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Constitutional Amendments: Local Democracy at the Altar of Supervision?
On 12 July 2001 the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development published two Bills with proposed amendments to the Constitution. This article ...
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Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2001
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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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From SALGA: Local Democracy at Risk?
The Justice and Constitutional Development Portfolio Committee held public hearings on the Third Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2002, at Parliament on 5 and 6 ...
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Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2002
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Easing Interventions in Local Government: The Proposed Constitutional Amendment
The proposed amendment to section 139 (2) of the Constitution, tabled in Parliament in August, creates new grounds on which a province may intervene in a ...
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Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2002