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The Community Law Centre offers a highly competitive research and training programme on local government and decentralisation in South Africa and the rest of ...

Measuring municipal audit consistency can be a useful policy tool

The data in the Auditor-General’s reports on local government can be used, not only as an annual scorecard of how many municipalities complied with their audit ...

Measuring transparency, public participation and oversight in the budget processes of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities

The Metro Open Budget Survey (Metro OBS) is modelled on the global Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiated by the International Budget Partnership in 2006. The OBS ...

MLGI research report examines the lessons to be drawn from the failure of Government’s Operation Clean Audit 2014

The Multilevel Government Initiative (MLGI) of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) released a research report, Operation Clean ...

New Publication: 'Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa'

In its modern history, Africa has experienced different waves of constitutional ordering. The latest democratisation wave, which began in the 1990s, has set ...

New Publication: ‘Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic’

This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national ...

New Publication: ‘Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic’

This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national ...

NEW PUBLICATION: The Value of Comparative Federalism

The Legacy of Ronald L. Watts Edited By Nico Steytler, Balveer Arora, Rekha Saxena

News Alert: Professor Jaap de Visser Recognised as a Top 25 Thinker in Local Government

We are proud to announce that Professor Jaap de Visser has been selected as one of the Top 25 Thinkers in Local Government by the LGIU (Local Government ...

October's Local Government Bulletin is now available

Over the past weeks, the impact of the leadership change in the African National Congress on government has become patently visible. The most important change ...