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Making Local Economic Development Work: Some Reflections From the Field.
Local economic development (LED) in South Africa has received considerable attention in recent months. This has ranged from LED-related conferences to the ...
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Volume 11, Issue 4, October 2009.
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Wolf in a Sheep's Clothing
Section 156(1) of the Constitution is the basis for the status of local government in the Constitution. It provides that municipalities have authority over the ...
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Volume 11, Issue 2, April/May 2009
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South Africa's Water and Sanitation Provision.
“Water is life, sanitation is dignity.” This is the cornerstone of the Strategic Framework for Water Services published by the Department of Water Affairs and ...
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Volume 11, Issue 2, April/May 2009
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Fault Lines Around Water Service Delivery.
South Africa has one of the most progressive legislative and policy frameworks for water services in the world, which includes a constitutional right of access ...
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Volume 11, Issue 1 February 2009
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Trends in Community Protest: From 2007 to 2010.
The research was undertaken by Hirsh Jain, a Harvard Law School visiting fellow at the Community Law Centre. This article summarises Jain’s findings relating ...
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Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2010
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The Toilet War.
The City of Cape Town built unenclosed toilets in Makhaza, an informal settlement in Ward 95 of Khayelitsha. It did so on the understanding that the community ...
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Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010.
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Municipal Duties to Occupiers Facing Evictions From Private Land.
While a number of recent judgments have confirmed the duty of municipalities to ‘meaningfully engage’ with unlawful occupiers before seeking to evict them from ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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Limits on Withholding Municipal Clearance Certificate.
In City of Cape Town v Real People Housing (77/09) [2009] ZASCA 159 (30 November 2009), the Supreme Court of Appeal clarified the meaning of section 118(1) of ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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Constitutional Court Shows the DFA the Door.
The Gauteng Development Tribunal was making land use management decisions and bypassing municipal land-use planning processes on the basis of the DFA. The SCA ...
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Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2010
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Undermining Local Planning.
Elsana Quarry, a mining company, was granted mining rights on a farm situated within the jurisdiction of the Swartland Municipality. The municipality requested ...
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Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2010.