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Title: | Negotiating in bad faith: local level negotiations and the Interim Measures for Local Government Act |
Authors: | Reid, Graeme Cobbett, William |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | South African Review - SARS |
Issue: | 6 |
Pages: | 239-253 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | legislation local government |
Abstract: | Since early 1990, negotiations between local authority structures and community organizations have occurred throughout South Africa. They have served as an important first engagement between vastly different ideologies and interest groups. It has also become apparent that, at the level of ideas and initiative, black local authorities and Indian and coloured management committees are feeling the effects of their extended period in the ideological cul-de-sacs of apartheid. In response these bodies have once again called on the apartheid State for help. The answer is the Interim Measures for Local Government Act 128 of 1991, which became law on 27 June 1991. The Act provides for interim measures with a view to promoting negotiations on local government level, the establishment of negotiating forums, and the issuing by the Administrator of proclamations in regard to such negotiations. Despite these aims, the Act is a model piece of anticivic intervention whose intention is, above all, to ensure that the State and its allies control the management of urban transition. The paper describes the 'interim' character of the Act, the powers allowed to administrators and mediators, the setting up, membership, chairperson, powers and functions of the negotiating forums, the role of the management committees, and the powers of the administrator in approving or rejecting proposals. It concludes that if the provisions of the Act are followed, they will have far-reaching implications both at local and national level. Notes, ref. |