The Constitution allocates municipalities five over-arching functions: to govern in a democratic manner;  to ensure the provision of basic services; to promote social and economic development;  to promote a safe and healthy environment; and to encourage community participation in local government. INPUT DOCUMENTS Dialogue Report Source Documents Presentations / Perspectives Dialogue Documents Media Coverage: As
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Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and often unacceptable quality of services. The CSIR in a study undertaken on the ‘State of municipal infrastructure in South Africa and
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To assist municipalities improve their planning, programming and budgeting capability, (including accessing and use of MIG funding), the dplg in partnership with the DBSA developed the MIIF. This framework has now been through several iterations and been both expanded and improved. The dialogue provides a platform for interrogating the MIIF in the light of current
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