Making Local Government Work: An Activist's Guide
SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SERI and Read Hope Philips Attorneys have developed a comprehensive guide for activists on local government in South Africa. The guide sets out the…
Local government must be fixed for services to be delivered
In the last week there has been much controversy regarding a report on municipal audit outcomes, with particular focus having been placed on allegations in the press that the report was returned to the National Treasury for it to be “repackaged” and not released in the run-up to the local government elections on 18 May 2011. This has been strongly denied by government. Whatever the truth, SECTION27 takes the view that this largely distracting sideshow has masked the real underlying issues.