1-5 of 110 matching articles 5 20 100 All Now to walk the walk on service delivery in South Africa Kerwin Datu • 7 June 2011 South Africa's recent local elections were a minor milestone on the road to democracy. Now it's time for the DA to show they can deliver on policy. Who sets the global urban agenda? The role of sectoral lobbies, local politicians and global institutions Alan Gilbert • 20 December 2011 Alan Gilbert doesn't believe there is one, but if one must speak of a global urban agenda, he would point to local private sector lobbies as the common force driving similar agendas in cities around the world. Politics needs to be part of the global urban agenda Kerwin Datu • 14 April 2011 Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table? Another round of elections, another round of unabashed populism in Mumbai Shilpa Rao and Anay Joglekar • 31 January 2012 There is no better time to witness the shortsightedness of governments than around elections. With municipal elections just around the corner in Mumbai, a whole raft of new promises are being made to certain slum dwellers... ANC's legitimacy to represent the poor challenged by local shack dwellers' movement IRIN • 21 April 2010 The rise of a "militant non-aligned social movement", Abahlali Basemjondolo, in KwaZulu-Natal has challenged the idea that the ANC represent the poor. Its well-organised protests have attracted violent police retaliation, unlike the marches organised by ANC-aligned trade unions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
