Research Articles - Dullah Omar Institute: Recent submissions
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Letting the numbers speak: Census 2011
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012)The South African Statistics Council has released the much-anticipated Census 2011 results. Its report provides relevant and timely information on a wide range of matters. This article focuses on those results that relate ... -
The draft: Municipal financial misconduct regulations
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-10)On 13 July 2012, the National Treasury published the draft Municipal Financial Misconduct Regulations for public comment. They set out processes and procedures that municipalities and entities must follow when dealing with ... -
Lessons from Carolina: Acid mine drainage, access to water and intergovernmental relations
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-10)Initiatives such as the Blue Drop and Green Drop certification programmes indicate government's commitment to improving the quality of drinking water. However, while many municipalities have made progress, there are still ... -
Municipalities' readiness to comply with treasury's competency requirements
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-06)In just under six months, the competency framework in the National Treasury's Minimum Competency Regulations will take full effect. Therefore, the article seeks to urge the National Treasury to be robust in implementing ... -
SALGA takes issue with draft regulations on senior managers' appointment and conditions of service
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-06)The Municipal Systems Amendment Act envisages regulations to provide for the competency requirements, appointment, duties, remuneration, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of municipal managers and ... -
Finding the balance: Fairness and equity, disconnections, credit control and debt collection
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-06)While service delivery is one of the most important functions of local government, the Municipal Systems Act and case law make it clear that the duty to collect revenue and service fees and equally important to ensure ... -
Implementing results-based management systems in Zimbabwe: Context and implications for the public sector
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2012)The article focuses on the introduction of the new concept of results-based management (RBM) in Zimbabwe’s public sector. The major tenets of RBM are explored and examined against traditional implementation-focused public ... -
Legal and institutional framework: The “achilles heel” of local authorities and raison d'etre of ministerial intervention in Zimbabwe
(2012)Centre-local relations have been an area of controversy in Zimbabwean local governance both as a discipline and as a practice. Local authorities have traded blows with central government particularly accusing the responsible ... -
Land-use zoning schemes: Do they apply to land for which a mining right has been granted?
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-06)Land-use zoning schemes, which are part of municipal planning, cannot be superseded by administrative decisions made by the national government. In fact, the national government or beneficiaries of administrative decisions ... -
Medical staff attrition in local authorities experiences from Harare City Council Maternity Clinics (2007-2008)
(Journal of Public Administration and Governance, 2012)The years 2007 and 2008 are of special reckoned in the history of Zimbabwe as the economy plunged into a meltdown and professionalism suddenly became an irrelevant status. Institutions in the public sector struggled for ... -
Sector wide approach in health policy response and framework in Zimbabwe
(Journal of Public Administration and Governance, 2012)The discourse is on the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) in health, a policy reform intervention by the World Health Organization, and focuses on Zimbabwe’s response, and the subsequent health policy framework. A SWAp is a ... -
Testing the metal of the Municipal Systems Amendment Act of 2011
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-06)The Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Act 7 of 2011 sought to put a halt to a phenomenon of staffing municipalities with unqualified people, thereby ensuring that skilled people are appointed. Its provisions ... -
Regional spatial development framework vs municipal zoning scheme - which trumps the other?
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-04)For a considerable time, many municipalities, or their officials, have considered themselves bound by the provisions of the spatial development framework (SDF) or the regional spatial development framework (RSDF) or ... -
Systems, Processes and Challenges of Public Revenue Collection in Zimbabwe
(American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 2013)An efficient national revenue collection system is the hub of every public administration system and the cornerstone of sound fiscal management. It enables governments to finance budget deficits from domestic sources, thus ... -
Riot damage - who pays?
(Local Government Bulletin, 2011-11)Protest actions has become part of South Africa's political landscape. The extent to which it is increasingly marked by violence is cause of alarm. Assemblies, pickets, marches and demonstrations are essential features of ... -
Participatory Budgeting in the City of Kwekwe (Zimbabwe) A perspective on the Issues, Trends and Options
(African Journal of Public Affairs, 2018)Towards the end of 2017, as has been the case every year, the Kwekwe City Council produced a budget outlining its various activities for the 2018 financial year. The unveiling of the 2018 budget was, among other things, ... -
Who can appoint commissions of enquiry: conducting a 'section 106 investigation'
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2008)If the member of a province's executive council (MEC) responsible for local government suspects maladministration, fraud, corruption or any other serious malpractice in a municipality, that MEC must designate a person or ... -
Limits on witholding municipal clearance certificates
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)In City of Cape Town v Real People Housing (77/09) [2009] ZASCA 159 (30 November 2009), the Supreme Court of Appeal clarified the meaning of section 118(1) of the Municipal Systems Act. This provision gives municipalities ... -
The end of administrative autonomy over individual staff appointments : from the courts
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2011)Section 118(1) provides that a registrar of deeds can register a property transfer only lfhe or she receives a municipal clearance certificate that confirms that all taxes and fees due In connection with the property 'during ... -
From the courts
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)The cart before the horse? An award of tender contracts before legal compliance?