Offers a user-friendly text for those who have dealings with local government. This work features an accompanying CD-ROM that contains regulations concerning procurement, fair administrative procedures and legislation on corruption.

The constitutional picture - What the first chapter sets out to do is to examine the constitutional background to local government from the time South Africa became a state in 1910, local government aspects of the current Constitution, as well as matters such as governmental systems and the Bill of Rights; municipal boundaries, establishment and wards - how municipal boundaries are fixed and wards delimited; municipal elections - the municipal electoral system and the management of elections; councillors, structures and systems - what councillors must or may do; municipal office-bearers and structures; development and services - the key concepts of development and services; municipal organisation and employment - organising the municipal administration; human resource issues; the basis of municipal financing - covers property valuations, approval of valuation rolls and rates policies; managing municipal finances - the many aspects of financial management; making local government work - matters such as planning, morality and ethics, leadership and public participation; legal concepts - a range of legal concepts.