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    • Position paper on the provincialisation of personal primary health care services 

      Versteeg, Marije; Hall, Wendy; de Visser, Jaap (South African Local Government Association, 2009)
      Primary health care (PHC) was internationally accepted in 1978 as the preferred system for health care. It is defined in the Declaration of Alma Ata and includes essential care, which is appropriate, available and affordable ...

    • Post-election analysis: Editorial 

      de Visser, Jaap (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
      The 2009 national and provincial elections have come and gone. As expected, the results have reshaped politics. The new President has promised a marked improvement in the service delivery and performance of the public ...

    • The powers of local government in decentralized systems of government: Managing the 'curse of common competencies' 

      Steytler, Nico (Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, 2005)
      The issues and problems flowing from common competencies are shared by many, if not all, decentralised and federal systems; they are a feature arising from the division of powers between two levels of government. The ...

    • Professional administration : crucial for service delivery 

      de Visser, Jaap; Ntliziywana, Phindile (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 ...

    • Professionalising political leadership: Leadership matters 

      Ntliziywana, Phindile (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      Moves are afoot to professionalise the administrative arm of local government. First, the National Treasury has prescribed a competency framework for municipal officials at senior and middle management levels. All senior ...

    • Property rates - latest developments 

      de Visser, Jaap; Singiza, Douglas (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 ...

    • Proposed provincial planning laws compared 

      de Visser, Jaap (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 ...

    • The protection of internally displaced children in Africa: A doctrinal analysis of article 23(4) of the African children’s charter 

      Adeola, Romola; Mezmur, Benyam D (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
      This article considers the protection of, and assistance for, internally displaced children (IDCs) in Africa. Internal displacement has become one of Africa’s most pressing human rights challenges. Over the last decade, ...

    • Reaffirming the social security rights of children in South Africa with particular reference to the child support grant 

      Mirugi-Mukundi, Gladys (ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2010)
      While South Africa has one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, the realisation of socio-economic rights remains a mirage for the majority of its population. Widespread poverty and unemployment present ...

    • Regional spatial development framework vs municipal zoning scheme - which trumps the other? 

      Ntliziywana, Phindile (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 ...

    • Regional Symposium on Harmonisation of Laws on Children in Eastern and Southern Africa, 9-10 May 2007 

      Mbazira, Christopher (African Human Rights Law Journal, 2007)
      From 9 to 10 May 2007, the African Child Policy Forum (AFCPF), supported by UNICEF, Eastern and Southern Africa Office (UNICEF-ESARO), organised a Regional Symposium on Harmonisation of Laws on Children in Eastern and ...

    • A right to a fair trial in Uganda’s Judicature (Visual Audio Link) Rules: Embracing the challenges in the era of Covid-19 

      Nanima, Robert Doya (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      The application of the Uganda Judicature (Visual-Audio Link) Rules does not contextualise the complete protection of an accused’s right to a fair trial during emergencies. A contextualisation of the right to a fair trial ...

    • A right to a fair trial in Uganda’s Judicature (Visual-Audio Link) Rules: Embracing the challenges in the era of Covid-19 

      Nanima, Robert Doya (Routledge, 2020)
      The application of the Uganda Judicature (Visual-Audio Link) Rules does not contextualise the complete protection of an accused’s right to a fair trial during emergencies. A contextualisation of the right to a fair trial ...

    • 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 ...

    • Roles and responsibilities of the municipal manager 

      de Visser, Jaap (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2001)
      renaming and transformation of local government structures. Coping with the new designation is probably the least important of the changes for the municipal manager. One of the key challenges in this respect is defining ...

    • Rules and orders: The building blocks of good governance 

      de Visser, Jaap (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
      How does a municipality make its decision-making procedures clear and legally sound? How does it ensure that every councillor can participate meaningfully in council meetings? How does it keep council and committee meetings ...

    • SALGA takes issue with draft regulations on senior managers' appointment and conditions of service 

      Ntliziywana, Phindile (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 ...

    • The scientific career of the zoologist Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (1852—1937) 

      Pieter, Florence F.J.M.; de Visser, Jaap (Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 1993)
      It is shown that the pinnacle of Max Weber’s scientific career was the organization and leadership of the Siboga Expedition to the former Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia)in the years 1899—1900. Before that time, as ...

    • A secret ballot? 

      de Visser, Jaap (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
      The Municipal Structures Act provides that the elections of office-bearers must takes place in a secret ballot. However, it does not stipulate what the consequences would be if every councillor did not, in fact, cast his ...

    • Sector wide approach in health policy response and framework in Zimbabwe 

      Madhekeni, Alois; Zhou, Gideon; Chevo, Tafadzwa (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 ...