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Professional administration : crucial for service delivery
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Municipalities cannot deliver on their developmental mandate without suitably qualified and professional staff. However, evidence shows that the lack of good governance of staff matters in many municipalities results in ...
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 ...
The (mis)management of ethno-linguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas. On the basis of this assumption the ...
Towards a professionalised municipal administration
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has published proposed amendments to the Municipal Systems Act which will do much to promote a more professional administration by way of better-qualified ...
Proposed provincial planning laws compared
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The legal framework for land use planning is changing rapidly, and provincial governments are addressing this issue by engaging in law reform. Their efforts takes places in the aftermath of the 2009 Constitutional Court ...
Spatial Land-Use Planning and Management Bill
(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 ...
Property rates - latest developments
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Property rates, as a form of tax imposed on the market value of land and buildings, are the key source of revenue of municipalities. The framework for the imposition of property rates is carefully regulated by the Municipal ...
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 state of our local democracies
(Good Governance Learning Framework, 2010)
Over the last 15 years, South Africa has transformed its local government system from an illegitimate, racist institution into a democratic institution with a developmental mandate. A new generation of municipalities, lead ...
Five suggestions to fix local government
(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 ...