Browsing Faculty of Law by Author "Chigwata, Tinashe"

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    • ANC proposals on local government 

      de Visser, Jaap; Chigwata, Tinashe (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
      In the run up to the ANC Policy Conference in Mangaung, the party's Legislature and Governance Working Group has produced a policy discussion document that pays considerable attention to provincial and local government.

    • Fact sheets on decentralisation in Africa 

      de Visser, Jaap; Chigwata, Tinashe (UTS ePRESS, 2022)
      A growing number of African countries are considering or implementing reforms that include forms of decentralisation. At times, these reforms are underpinned by (recent) constitutional change, as in Mozambique (2018), ...

    • The idea of a new Zimbabwe post- Mugabe 

      Chigwata, Tinashe; Marumahoko, Sylvester (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
      Zimbabwe has gone through deep political, economic and social challenges for close to three decades. Once known as the shining light of Africa, Zimbabwe is now often known for dominating international headlines for the ...

    • Land-use zoning schemes: Do they apply to land for which a mining right has been granted? 

      Chigwata, Tinashe (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      Land-use zoning schemes, which are part of municipal planning, cannot be superseded by administrative decisions made by the national government.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 ...

    • Real or imagined local autonomy: Experiences from local government in Ethiopia, South Africa and Zimbabwe 

      Chigwata, Tinashe; de Visser, Jaap;  Ayele, Zemelak (Koninklijke Brill NV, 2021)
      Centralized rule has been common in Africa, and almost all African countries implemented, constitutionally or otherwise, programs of centralization from the time they achieved independence from colonial rule. They did ...

    • Riot damage - who pays? 

      Chigwata, Tinashe (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 ...

    • South Africa: Surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave 

      Steytler, Nico; de Visser, Jaap; Chigwata, Tinashe (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 ...