The salaries and benefits of municipal councillors are determined by the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998; and then (currently) specifically the regulations titled Determination of upper limits of salaries, wages and benefits of different members of municipal councillors (the September 2023 version). Download an Excel spreadsheet below to do a quick analysis of the salaries of municipal councilors in your municipality.

Die sogenaamde Diskriksmodel gaan nie werk nie; dit is net nog een van vele projekte wat munisipalitiete moet regruk, maar net ideologie is.

The analysis makes an analysis of the effectiveness of Integrated Development Planning as the prescribed planning system for South African municipalities. A total of twelve (12) considerations were included in the analysis. These considerations are focused on the outcomes that an Integrated Development Plan is supposed to promote (or achieve) in local government.

The invasion of the land next to Lourierpark in Bloemfontein has sparked a lot of debate. In this article, I explain my viewpoints ...

This document conducts a short an analysis of the results of local government intervention programmes by considering three elements in the process of governance and administration. These are the following: 1. Service Delivery (access to essential basic services) 2. Governance and Community Engagement 3. Core Management Processes

The system of integrated development planning is too complicated, too dependent on sophisticated data collection and integration methodologies, to be useful in a country with South Africa’s development status. Officials, councillors and (less of all) communities do not properly understand it, and supervisory spheres of government (both provincial, as well as national) use it to pile on bureaucratic requirements that have eventually turned IDPs into volumes of unimplementable