28 August 2023

Balancing Probity and Performance: reflecting on regulation in 20 years of democratic local governance in South Africa

One area which has received comparatively little academic and policy attention is the need to balance probity, compliance and the stewardship of public funds and assets in municipalities, on the one hand, with the equally urgent imperative to improve performance of local government in fulfilling its developmental mandate, on the other. The knee-jerk reaction to the rising tide of maladministration […]

Municipal finance
13 December 2021

The District Development Model Conundrum by Gundo Maswime

In an article published in IMIESA on 25 November 2021, Maswine (2021) asserts that lessons learnt 3 pilot sites of the District Development Model could contribute to the success of the model. Maswine contends that the DDM is attempting to overcome challenges emanating from two structural features of the South Africa constitution: its objective of citizen participation in local government […]

Intergovernmental fiscal relations

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