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Democratising local government helps to build and sustain peace
Local governments contribute to fostering peace by working in, and with the communities that reside within them
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Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2023
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Determining the size of local councils in Ethiopia: The larger, the more democratic?
It has been close to ten years since the local government elections were held in Ethiopia. The elections have been indefinitely postponed since 2018 because ...
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Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2022
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One step forward, two steps back: 2021 local government elections resulted in lower women’s representation than the last few elections
In our previous article on women’s representation in local government, we reported that the numbers of women elected into office for proportional ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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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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Court orders City of Cape Town not to remove political banners of the EFF
In the Economic Freedom Fighters v City of Cape Town and Another, the court dealt with a case brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) against the City ...
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Volume 16, Issue 5, November/December 2021
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Can public servants stand as candidates in municipal elections?
This article explores the law on councillor candidacy, particularly as it relates to municipal, provincial and national employees. Officials employed by the ...
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Volume 16, Issue 5, November/December 2021
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Women’s representation in the upcoming Local Government Elections
After celebrating 20 years of democratic local government, we stand on the cusp of our sixth municipal elections on 1 November 2021. Once again local ...
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Volume 16, Issue 5, November/December 2021
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What happens to interventions after the local government elections?
Too many municipalities are not functioning as they should. The Auditor General has repeatedly reported municipalities’ poor financial management (see ...
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Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021
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Why coalition agreements should be public
In the previous articles of the coalition series in the Local Government Bulletin, it was argued that the proportional representation (PR) electoral system of ...
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Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021
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Local government elections: to delay or not to delay?
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), finds itself in a conundrum. On the one hand, the terms of municipal councils are fixed to a five year term ...
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Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021