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South Africa's municipalities may, in terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, make by-laws for the effective administration of the matters it has a right to administer. The areas within which a municipality may make by-laws are listed in Schedule 4 Part B, and Schedule 5 Part B, of the Constitution.
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (formerly the Department of Provincial and Local Government) was a ministry of the South African government, responsible for the relationship between the national government and the provincial governments and municipalities, and for overseeing the traditional leadership of South Africa's indigenous communities.
The basic structure of local government originates from Chapter 7 of the Constitution of South Africa. In addition to this a number of acts of Parliament regulate the organisation of local government. The principal statutes are: Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998 (Act 27 of 1998)
South African administrative law is the branch of public law which regulates the legal relations of public authorities, whether with private individuals and organisations or with other public authorities, [1] or better say, in present-day South Africa, which regulates "the activities of bodies that exercise public powers or perform public functions, irrespective of whether those bodies are ...
In South Africa, a provincial legislature is the legislative branch of the government of a province. [1] The provincial legislatures are unicameral and vary in size from 30 to 80 members, depending on the registered voting population of the province. [2] Each legislature is chaired by a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker.
Each district municipality is divided into a number of local municipalities, and responsibility for municipal affairs is divided between the district and local municipalities. There are 205 local municipalities in South Africa. A local municipality may include rural areas as well as one or more towns or small cities.
Local, provincial, and national government must work together in South Africa. [5] The South African Local Government Association was created in 1997 to better ensure this, as heavy emphasis was placed on the importance of local and municipal governments in South Africa's development. The 1997 Organised Local Government Act recognizes the South ...