Editorial
Articles
Inside the municipality: locating debates on local government
Mosa Phadi and Peter Vale
Decentralisation and recentralisation in South Africa’s local government
Thokozani Chilenga-Butao
‘The logic of appropriateness’: understanding non-compliance in South African local government
Tracy Ledger
Paperwork and power plays: contestation and performance at a Limpopo municipality
Joel Pearson
Being watched, being excluded and being made to speak the ‘truth’: Foucault and power relations within a Limpopo municipality
Thomas Lesaffre
Governing mining towns: the case of Lephalale
Emma Monama
Comment/Opinion
Short notes on SAICCOR
Vishnu Padayachee
Revisiting the legacy of Neil Aggett
Edward Webster
Reviews
Rachael Matteau Matsha (2018) Real and Imagined Readers: censorship, publishing and reading under apartheid, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Reviewd by Mbongeni Malaba
Barbara Heer (2019) Cities of Entanglements: social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag.
Reviewed by Paul Jenkins.
Bill Freund (2018) Twentieth-Century South Africa: a developmental history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reviewed by Nicolas Pons-Vignon.
Jill E Kelly (2019) To Swim with Crocodiles: land, violence and belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
Reviewed by Sibongiseni Mkhize.