Browsing Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights by Subject "Intervention"

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    • Five suggestions to fix local government 

      de Visser, Jaap (State of Local Governance Publication, 2018)
      The past few weeks have brought the troubled state of local government to the fore with renewed vigour. The Auditor-General’s (AG) consolidated report over the 2016/2017 financial year presented a very bleak picture of the ...

    • Overseeing the overseers: assessing compliance with municipal intervention rules in South Africa 

      de Visser, Jaap; November, Jerome (Springer, 2017)
      Section 139 of the Constitution of South Africa empowers provinces to intervene into municipalities, an instrument to correct serious failures in local government. This article discusses the policy and legal framework for ...

    • Spatial Land-Use Planning and Management Bill 

      de Visser, Jaap (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
      The Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform has introduced the Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management Bill (SPLUMB) (14 of 2012) in Parliament. The Bill, which is likely to be fast-tracked, will have very serious ...