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Confronting the state of local government: the 2013 Constitutional Court decisions
(Juta, 2016)
In September 2014 the then Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan, divided municipalities into three groups: a third of the municipalities was carrying out their tasks adequately, a third ...
National cohesion and intergovernmental relations in South Africa
(JUTA, 2016)
The creation of provinces in 1994 gave effect to the grand compromise of the
1993 negotiations, but also raised fears about the deleterious consequences
they could hold for national cohesion. A first concern was that ...
Kenya-South Africa dialogue on devolution
(JUTA and company, 2016)
In a radical break with its past, democratic South Africa established a system of devolution that was confirmed in the 1996 Constitution. In reaction to a system of highly centralised government that had seen the abuse of ...
Decentralisation and Constitutionalism in Africa: Concepts, Conflicts and Challenges
(Fourth Stellenbosch annual seminar on constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA), 2016-09-07)
A central quest in post-Cold War Africa has been to bring the Leviathan – the untrammelled
ruler – to heel through constitutionalism, and, to a lesser extent, also decentralisation.
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unbridled power of the imperial ...