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Call for Applications: Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Multilevel Government 2021 - 2022
Author: Mandy Cupido
Published: 18 Sep 2020
The South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Multilevel Government, Law and Development, based at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights (DOI), University of the Western Cape, is pleased to announce a full-time post-doctoral research fellowship in multilevel government for 2021.
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African School on Decentralisation 2020: Call for Applications
Published: 12 Dec 2019
The South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute of the University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies of Addis Ababa University are delighted to announce the inaugural African School on Decentralisation.
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Prof Steytler talks about federal government at AAU
Published: 09 Feb 2017
Prof Nico Steytler, South African research chair for multilevel government, Law and Policy at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law made his presentation titled: ‘the federal character of federal government: the missing component of shared rules,; at the Center for Federal Studies of the Addis Ababa University.
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Call for papers: Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
Published: 05 Nov 2015
The Organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Fourth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2016) which will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Wednesday 7 September to Friday 9 September 2016.
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Prof De Visser addresses DDP Conference on Local Government
Published: 20 Oct 2014
"Reflecting on 20 years of Local Government" was the title of a presentation by Jaap de Visser to a conference on Local Government, organised by the Democracy Development Programme (DDP) in Durban on 20 October 2014.
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Gradual but consistent improvement in audit outcomes from 2008 to 2013
Author: jacob
Published: 26 Sep 2014
There has been a gradual but consistent improvement in municipal audit outcomes over the past five financial years (2008/09-2012/13), but notwithstanding national government’s new and more realistic strategy to improving audit outcomes, local government may fall short of achieving the new targets for 2019 set by the new Minister.
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Measuring municipal audit consistency can be a useful policy tool
Author: jacob
Published: 09 Jul 2014
The data in the Auditor-General’s reports on local government can be used, not only as an annual scorecard of how many municipalities complied with their audit obligations, but as a measure of the resilience of local government as a public institution.
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