South Africa's first local government elections held in November 1995 and June 1996 cemented the transition from apartheid to democratic local government. Local government since then has failed to fulfil its ma
Do Parties Hold Politicians Accountable (and for What)? Evidence from South African Local Government ElectionsDemocracyaccountabilityservice provisionpolitical partiesSouthern AfricaIn this paper, we examine the extent to which political parties in a strong-party system hold individual politicians to account...
Using the same NP template, the SABC was inherited by the African National Congress (ANC)-led government to broadcast the first democratic elections of South Africa (Wigston 2020). SABC radio, the only medium that the majority of the South African citizenry relied on for news, was pivotal in...
South Africa's main opposition party, in Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the main opposition party, Democratic Alliance (DA), have reached a deal to form a government of national unity (GNU), local media reported on Friday.(Photo by Xab...
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It was during this first phase that the national government offered policy and regulatory support to municipalities, following the first local government elections in 2000. The emphasis on municipal broadband backbone infrastructure and ICT capacity to support these systems, was intended to enable ICT ...
South African Local Government Association (SALGA) is an organisation mandated by the new South African Constitution to assist in the wholesale transformation of local government in South Africa from the pre-1994 regime to the new dispensation under the country's first democratically elected government...
While it is sometimes characterised as a dominant party, South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) has failed to demonstrate consistent dominance in provincial and municipal elections. It is argued that this incongruence is related to the ways in which the national political imaginary is success...
The public record of an authority is held in the agendas and minutes of the council, its executive and its various committee meetings. Today the way in which these are published is set out by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 and availability has improved with the publicat...
Additionally, some FHs allow only active members to vote; some other FHs do not foresee elections at all, and representatives are elected by the government. Last, what emerges from all the FHs is that a mechanism for removing representatives is missing. Overall, it is hard to say which ...