Browsing Doctor Legum - LLD by Author "Steytler, Nico"
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The centre cannot hold: The role of subnational governments in policing in South Africa
Redpath, Jean (University of Western Cape, 2019)South Africa continues to experience one of the highest crime rates in the world. Crime is unevenly distributed, and the police are not trusted by the majority of citizens. The power and responsibility for policing lies ... -
Decentralisation and Recentralisation in Anglophone Southern Africa: Factors driving the EBB and flow of power
Madhekeni, Alois (University of the Western Cape, 2020)Literature on multilevel government is replete with the virtues of decentralisation as a governing model. As a result, the discourse of decentralisation has found its way into the constitutions, legislation and policy ... -
Devolution for development, conflict resolution, and limiting central power: an analysis of the constitution of Kenya 2010
Bosire, Conrad M. (University of the Western Cape, 2013)State practice and literature suggest that devolution of power can address the main challenges of underdevelopment, internal conflict and abuse of centralised power in developing states. However, this thesis advances the ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal systems and self-rule: A Kenyan case study
Henry Paul Gichana; Omboto, Henry Paul Gichana (University of the Western Cape, 2022)The conferment of self-rule or autonomy to subnational governments is incomplete without the corresponding conferment of the financial means and discretion necessary to facilitate the exercise of such autonomy. This makes ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal systems and self-rule: A Kenyan case study
Omboto, Henry Paul Gichana (University of the Western Cape, 2022)The conferment of self-rule or autonomy to subnational governments is incomplete without the corresponding conferment of the financial means and discretion necessary to facilitate the exercise of such autonomy. This makes ... -
An interpretation of the constitutional framework for devolution in Kenya: a comparative approach.
Mutakha, John Kangu (University of the Western Cape, 2014)Kenya adopted a new Constitution in 2010, with devolution of political power, responsibilities and resources to newly created counties as its centrepiece and most transformative aspect. Devolution was intended to address ... -
The Transformation of local government service delivery in South Africa: The failures and limits of legislating new public management
Ntliziywana, Phindile (University of the Western Cape, 2017)Apartheid local government failed to deliver services to the people of South Africa. Instead, it created huge spatial/settlement distortions, economic disparities, skewed urban economic logic, and massive service and ...