It was required to approve aĬonsolidated budget, to ensure that the substructures The powers, functions, assets and liabilities of the dissolved authoritiesĪnd charged inter alia with winding down these bodies,Ĭapacities within itself and its substructures, and determining a minimum levelĭevolve its authority and responsibility, gradually and by means of negotiation,įinances were initially to flow through the TMC. The early transformation towards democratic local government. In terms of Proclamation 24 the TMC was to be theīody within the region and the engine for driving Metropolitan council and seven transitional metropolitan It dissolved theĮxisting local government bodies and created a transitional Government structures within the greater Johannesburg area. Pre-interim period, Premier’s Proclamation 24 of 1994 (Proclamation 24)ġ0 of the LGTA for the purpose of unifying local The third phase, to be initiated and regulated by new
Life 1999 analysis series#
Such elections and witnessed the introduction of a series of transitional The “interim” phase commenced on the date of During the “pre-interim”įorums were established and charged with appointing temporary councils toĭischarge local government responsibilities.Ĭommencement of the LGTA, on 2 February 1994, until the first democratic local LGTA contemplates that the transformation of local government will take place in Government should take place in accordance with the Local Government Transition In section 245 that the complex restructuring of local Prescribe the specific manner in which this transformation was to occur. On 27 April 1994, sought to break from this state of affairs by establishing a “Black”, “Coloured” and “Indian” areas, byĬontrast, were plagued by underdevelopment, Infrastructure, thriving business districts and valuable rateable
Those in historically “White” areas were Largest and most developed urban area, were of Thirteen local government bodies which formerly exercised powers and duties Personal wealth, physical infrastructure and the provision of services were andĪre often most patent. Sketch the political and legal context within which the present dispute hasĭiscrimination and disparity to a constitutional democracy founded upon freedom,Īnd equality posed, and continues to pose, particularly profoundĬhallenges at local government level.
The lawfulness of the increase was attacked by ten ratepayers in the TMC), constitute local government in the greater Johannesburg Together with the Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council (the Metropolitan Substructure, one of the four transitional substructures which, In property situated within the area of the Eastern Substantial increase in the general rate which, in June 1996, was levied on SOUTHERN METROPOLITAN SUBSTRUCTURE Fifth Respondent WESTERN METROPOLITAN SUBSTRUCTURE Fourth Respondent NORTHERN METROPOLITAN SUBSTRUCTURE Third Respondent RYCKLOF-BELEGGINGS (PTY) LTD Eighth AppellantĮASTERN METROPOLITAN SUBSTRUCTURE Second Respondent RIVONIA ANNEX (PTY) LTD Seventh Appellant MOMENTUM PROPERTY INVESTMENTS (PTY) LTD Fifth Appellantġ00 GRAYSTON DRIVE PROPERTY (PTY) LTD Sixth Appellant LIBERTY LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AFRICA LTD Fourth Appellant J D B BELEGGINGS (EDMS) BPK Third Appellant HOLDING 24 STRATHAVON (PTY) LTD Second Appellant Fedsure Life Assurance Ltd and Others v Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council and Others (CCT7/98) Z(1) SA 374 1998 (12) BCLR 1458 (14 October 1998)
0 kommentar(er)
