The Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) is a unique programme, aimed at practitioners. It will equip you with knowledge of the South African local government system, and with skills to apply this knowledge in practice.
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This one-year Masters Course equips students to understand how South African provinces and local government work, how the multilevel system of government compares to other countries on the continent and on what global theories and practices it is based.
"The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is an implementing partner of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme. Initiated in 2012, the Programme is a global initiative designed to develop the next generation of transformative leaders by enabling highly talented, service-oriented young people, primarily young Africans, to pursue their higher education and cultivate their leadership potential."
The Socio-Economic Rights Project (SERP) at the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), University of the Western Cape invites contributions for the ESR Review, a quarterly publication aimed at informing and educating politicians, policymakers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academics, and legal practitioners about key developments in socio-economic rights at both national and international levels.
Socio-Economic Rights Project (SERP) at the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), University of the Western Cape invites contributions for the ESR Review, a quarterly publication aimed at informing and educating politicians, policymakers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academics, and legal practitioners about key developments in socioeconomic rights at both national and international levels.
Mr Curtly Stevens and Dr Johandri Wright participated at the 10th International Comparative Urban Law Conference in London that was held during 18, 19 and 20 July 2024. The conference was hosted by the Fordham Urban Law Centre.
On 30 July 2024, the Dullah Omar Institute in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a webinar on "Revisiting Coalitions: Impact of the GNU on Governance, Intergovernmental Relations and Local Government".
On 10 June 2024, the Netherlands State Commission on the Rule of Law, chaired by Prof Henk Kummeling (Extraordinary Professor at the Dullah Omar Institute) released its findings in a report titled “The Broken Promise of the Rule of Law”.