October 15, 2020
Op ed | A New Part for the Course
By Federica Duca Recent news of the redevelopment of the River Club in Cape…
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October 12, 2020
Toolkit for Public Servants
The Constitution envisions a public administration that maintains a high standard of professional ethics, is…
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October 12, 2020
Governing mining towns: the case of Lephalale
By Emma Monama Abstract South Africa’s failure to transform the spatial geography of apartheid has…
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October 12, 2020
Journal Articles
2020 Chilenga-Butao, T. (2020) 'Decentralisation and recentralisation in South Africa’s local government: case studies of…
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October 9, 2020
Being watched, being excluded and being made to speak the ‘truth’: Foucault and power relations within a Limpopo municipality
By Thomas Lesaffre Abstract The present condition of the South African state has attracted a…
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October 8, 2020
Paperwork and power plays: contestation and performance at a Limpopo municipality
By Joel Pearson Abstract This article considers the role that documents played in episodes of…
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October 8, 2020
‘The Logic of Appropriateness’: understanding non-compliance in South African local government
By Tracy Ledger Abstract Local government is central to the delivery of the state’s developmental…
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September 29, 2020
Decentralisation and recentralisation in South Africa’s local government: case studies of two municipalities in Limpopo
By Thokozani Chilenga-Butao Abstract Democratic decentralisation was introduced in South Africa during the transition to…
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September 29, 2020
Inside the municipality: locating debates on local government
By Mosa Phadi and Peter Vale The rise of African liberation parties to power in…
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September 22, 2020
Revisioning State-Society Relationships in a Pandemic: New Zealand’s Response to Covid-19
By Naomi Simon-Kumar, Rachel Simon-Kumar and Monique Jonas, August 2020Introduction New Zealand’s early success in…
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