HeyJaredKevin Allan
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- Sep 16, 2026
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- Jul 21, 2026
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KEVIN ALLAN | Municipal accountability — all rules, no consequences (opens the original)
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South Africa has spent three decades trying to improve local government through legislation, regulation, oversight and intervention, but municipal noncompliance remains remarkably widespread. Perhaps it is time to ask whether we are trying to regulate our way out of what is fundamentally an accountability problem. Constitutional law professor Pierre de Vos recently raised a version of this question in discussing the proposed Coalitions Bill. The bill attempts to bring greater stability to munici
KEVIN ALLAN | Treasury’s toughest battle is not with municipalities — it’s with the system that protects them (opens the original)
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The National Treasury’s decision to release the remaining July equitable share allocations to 69 financially distressed municipalities has been widely interpreted as a retreat. And indeed, faced with growing concern over unpaid salaries, interrupted services and mounting political pressure, the Treasury did step back from its most dramatic financial intervention in years. But focusing on whether it “blinked” misses the far more important story. The episode exposed something that has long frustra
KEVIN ALLAN | Treasury turns off the tap: the end of municipal grants without accountability (opens the original)
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For more than a decade the National Treasury has tried to rescue failing municipalities through guidance, technical support, financial recovery plans and negotiated reforms. It has issued circular after circular, deployed advisers, strengthened reporting requirements and worked alongside provincial treasuries to improve municipal financial management. More recently, it even offered municipalities an unprecedented opportunity to escape crippling Eskom debt through a structured debt relief program
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