Cabinet made a decision in December 2010 to discontinue the process of restructuring the Electricity Distribution Industry (EDI) through the establishment of Regional Electricity Distributors (REDs).   In response EDI Holdings has wound down its operations and closed as of the 31 March 2011.  As such the Department of Energy will review the entire electricity value
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The challenges Municipalities face in adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change on their Infrastructure. Governments from around the world met in December to discuss policy and the way forward in dealing with the effects of Climate Change (Conference of the Parties -15 of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen). 
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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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