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Electing councillors: A guide to municipal elections
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The electoral system for local government combines ward elections with proportional representation. It is regulated in at least four different statutes, the Electoral Act 73 of 1998, the Local Government: Municipal Structures ...
A perspective on local government's role in realising the right to housing and the answer of the Grootboom judgment
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
This article examines the responsibilities of the three spheres of government with regard to implementing the right of access to housing and, in particular, the responsibility of local government. Local authorities are ...
Realising the right of access to water: pipe dream or watershed?
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
The article assesses the implications of the Grootboom judgment on the right of access to water. The free basic water policy intends six free kilolitres of water per household per month to be funded from the equitable share ...
Unfunded mandates: Directing subnational governments
(Deutsche Förschungsinstitut fur Öffentlichen Verwaltung, 2012)
Unfounded mandates are an extreme manifestation of the phenomenon of governing from the centre; the federal government through various strategies imposes national mandates on state and local governments at the expense of ...
Demarcating provincial and local powers regarding liquor retail
(Unisa Press, 2004)
Local government’s newly acquired status as a fully-fledged sphere of
government with constitutionally protected powers is slowly gaining momentum.
Now that the dust is slowly settling around the demarcation and ...
South Africa: Surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave
(Routledge, 2021)
When the Covid-19 pandemic reached its shores between February and March
2020, South Africa was already in a vulnerable situation – socially, economically,
and politically. Although the country’s population, estimated ...