Buffalo City launched a 10-year tourism master plan at the East London City Hall on Monday, 27 September as part of an initiative to attract visitors to the region.

Deputy President Jacob Zuma has called on senior managers in the public service to conduct self assessments within their departments to ensure that services rendered to the public are of the most favourable standards.

Local government practitioners and municipal policymakers began preparing for the forthcoming municipal elections, likely to be held between December 2005 and March 2006, at the Local Government Elections Preparatory conference in Johannesburg. Provincial and local government minister Sydney Mufamadi called on delegates to revive "the kind of activism that will nudge our democracy into a higher trajectory".

Local government needs to develop a proper billing system, which will enable it to sustain itself whilst still meeting its mandate of basic service provision, according to Local Government Department Advisor Peter Vaz who was speaking at the Institute of Municipal Finance Officers held in Durban.

President Thabo Mbeki launched the Western's Cape Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP) in Gugulethu, which will spend R5.9 billion over the next five years, where he invited all sectors of the society to support the programmes to improve people's lives.

A municipality says a number of issues had made it difficult for the country's 283 municipalities to meet some of the demands made at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

A task team of members from Parliament's Portfolio Committees of Sport and Recreation and Provincial and Local Government has been set up to oversee the smooth running of preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

In an effort to remove confusion over land use rights, Johannesburg is in the process of formulating an integrated land use management system that will create a single zoning scheme for the whole of the city.

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