Category Archives: News

TAKE ACTION: Have your say on your municipality’s budget

CAN empowers South Africans to challenge unfair rate hikes and influence local spending, holding municipalities [...]

Tshwane residential property owners urged to engage in their property rates determination

The Community Action Network (CAN), an initiative of OUTA, calls on all Tshwane residential property [...]

CAN campaign urges citizens to take control of their municipal property valuations

Credit: OUTA  The Community Action Network (CAN), an initiative of OUTA, has launched a project [...]

Seizing democracy is a responsibility, not a right

Democracy is a living ideal and it needs constant engagement. Without this commitment to engagement, [...]

OUTA’s Community Action Network joins pushback against risky local government reforms

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse’s (OUTA) Community Action Network (CAN) has raised concerns over two [...]

Let’s bash the door down

If there was ever a time for grassroot civil society organisations to demand recognition and [...]

Make your voice heard on the proposed Coalition Bill

Make your voice heard on the proposed Coalition Bill COMMENT PERIOD EXTENDED UNTIL 31 AUGUST.  [...]

Join our submission on the Municipal Structures Act Amendment Bill

Join our submission on the Municipal Structures Act Amendment Bill The “Coalition Bill” that, if [...]

Ratepayers are loudly rejecting bad city budgets, and long may it last

By Jonathan Erasmus Let us be frank – our municipalities are paying little or no [...]

Water will always be a political issue.

By Jonathan Erasmus, CAN Project Manager  The biggest unknown in South Africa’s upcoming general election [...]