Browsing by Author "De Visser, Jacobus Wilhelm"

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    City regions in pursuit of SDG 11: Institutionalising multilevel cooperation in Gauteng, South Africa
    (Routledge, 2019) De Visser, Jaap; De Visser, Jacobus Wilhelm
    Metropolitan areas are becoming more and more important in shaping the future of the planet. In 2017 there were 34 megacities worldwide, i.e. cities with a population of over 10 million. It is expected that this number will grow to 41 by 2030 (United Cities and LocaJ Governments (UCLG) 2017a, p. 44). There arc many more smaller urban conglomerations that can be defined as metropolitan areas, using criteria such as continuous growth, levels of density and perhaps most importantly, functional interdependence (UCLG 2017a, p. 44). Metropolitan areas are growing fast and face tremendous challenges. In both developed and developing countries, they experience sprawl, social fragmentation, economic challenges and environmental threats. In developing countries this is compounded by the reality that 880 million people worldwide live in slums, most of them within metropolitan areas (UCLG 2017a, p. 46). The growth of metropolitan areas presents tremendous opportunities for an increase of the well being of the city dwellers within them, but the reality is that many of the challenges fly in the face of the aspirations of Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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    A legal analysis of provincial intervention in a municipality
    (University of the Western Cape, 1999) De Visser, Jacobus Wilhelm; Steytler, N
    With the introduction of the 1996 Constitutor local government was for the first time in South African history acknowledged as a fully-fledged 'sphere' of government and its role and responsibilities as an equal partner of national and provincial government gained momentum. Local government no longer was an instrument at the hands of national government, used to implement its apartheid policies and practices. Instead, it became one of the three "distinctive, interdependent and interrelated spheres of government and a new unexplored legal space for local government opened up. But on 18 March 1998, a crack in the newly created sphere of local government appeared. The Eastern Cape Provincial Executive intervened in the Butterworth Transitional Local Council and assumed full responsibility for the administration of Butterworth. The province used as a legal basis section 139 of the very same Constitution that provided Butterworth with this new status as being part of an 'independent and autonomous sphere of government'.