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Between a rock and a dark place: Municipalities battle to keep the lights on in the face of escalating debt
In the space of one week in September, the country’s load shedding status sent any sniff of foreign investors scurrying for cover, and the City of Tshwane ...
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Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2022
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The prosecution of corruption in local government
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must prosecute corruption at all levels of government. While much of the focus has been on the capture of national ...
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Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2022
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Safeguarding the integrity of councillors and senior managers in local government
On 12 April 2022, the Dullah Omar Insitute (DOI) convened a webinar on 'Safeguarding the integrity of councillors and senior managers in local government'. ...
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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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Constitutional Court invalidates the dissolution of the Municipal Council of Tshwane
Ever since the first intervention under the 1996 Constitution in the then Butterworth Transitional Local Council (Eastern Cape) in 1998, it has remained ...
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Volume 16, Issue 5, November/December 2021
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Streamlining the administrative burden in Western Cape Municipalities
The School for Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation conducted a research study on the impact of the ...
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Volume 16, Issue 4, October 2021 [Special Issue on Local Government Finance]
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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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Court orders national government to leapfrog into Lekwa Local Municipality
Failed service delivery at municipal level is not a new phenomenon. In recent times, however, communities, non-governmental organisations and private companies ...
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Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021
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Court stops reckless electricity outsourcing contract
Can a municipality under a section 139(5) intervention avoid or by-pass an Administrator, or adopt decisions, such as entering into contracts, that undermine a ...
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Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2021
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Stepping aside, But then What? How the ANC's Resolution affects councillors
The African National Congress (ANC) is implementing a resolution, which provides that members who face criminal charges for corruption, must ‘step aside’. It ...
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Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2021