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City of Cape Town wants to run the metro railway service
A simple google search of South Africa’s railway leads one to pictures and videos of dilapidated railway networks, in sharp contrast of what one would imagine ...
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Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2022
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Court clarifies the interpretation and application of a Municipal Spatial Development Framework
In Choisy-Le-Roi Owners v The Municipality of Stellenbosch the Court addressed the question of how a Municipality’s Spatial Development Framework (‘MSDF’) ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Mines, malls and cellphone masts: how the Constitutional Court confirms the need for municipal approval and government doesn’t seem to want to listen?
In June 2020, the Constitutonal Court handed down an important judgment for local government. In Telkom SA SOC Limited v City of Cape Town and Another, the ...
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Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2022
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Court tells the City of Cape Town to exhaust intergovernmental dispute resolution mechanisms
In City of Cape Town v the Minister of Energy, the Court had to decide whether the case between the City of Cape Town and the national Minister responsible for ...
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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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AARTO Acts: High Court says national government must respect the autonomy of provinces and municipalities
The national government has a shared responsibility with provinces and municipalities to ‘secure the wellbeing of the people’. It may achieve this objective ...
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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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Municipalities and Eskom must work together to secure the well-being of South Africans
Courts have on several occasions delivered judgments which held that Eskom must first exhaust the alternative remedies available to it to hold municipalities ...
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Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2022
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on district municipalities in the Western Cape
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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Gender sensitive planning and urban design for cities to respond to GBVF
The National Strategic Plan (NSP) to address Gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) aims to create an enabling environment in which women can feel safe. ...
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Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2021
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Factors affecting local governance
How can we improve the quality of governance in municipalities? What do we need to do in local government to promote stability, allow development to take ...
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Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2020
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Western Cape High Court sets a new benchmark for promoting spatial equity, access to land and housing
The Constitution does not make explicit reference to ‘spatial equity’. However, the spatial inequalities that are characterised by poor living conditions, ...
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Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2020