Tag Archives: South Africa

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 [...]

A simple summary of the Property Rates Act

The Municipal Property Rates Act (MPRA) No. 6 of 2004 governs how municipalities assess, levy, [...]

A Year in Review: Co-Governance webinars by CAN

2024 was a pivotal year for community empowerment under the Community Action Network’s (CAN) Co-Governance [...]

Joburg agrees to pay Eskom

After a year of first delayed payments and then refusing to pay, the City of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Community consultation and consent collection

Goal: Ensure broad community support by engaging property owners, addressing concerns, and securing the necessary [...]

SRA – Initial planning and engagement phase

• Form a steering committee; • Engage with the municipality; • Define UIP proposed boundary.

Municipal Matters: A guide to bylaws

By-laws are no less and no more important than any other law passed by national [...]