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Editorial

Introduction
Kira Erwin and Phila Msimang

Introduction

Revenues, rule, redistribution
Tim Gibbs and Laura Phillips

Articles

Long-term struggles for land and related services: egalitarian local authority in the Eastern Cape’s Border-Kei region from the mid-1980s to 2010
Luvuyo Wotshela

Local Municipalities, central fiscal reform, and regional blocs: revenue relationships and local government in Limpopo, 1980-2020
Joel Pearson

‘Mutual accommodation’: clientelist politics in South African school education
Sarah Meny-Gibert

The ‘Invisible’ property system and revenue collection in former homelands in the context of hybrid governance and access to land and basic services
Avhatakali Sithagu

Briefing Notes

From Elliot to Sakhisizwe: municipal finance in a changing political economy
Fani Ncapayi

Conflict at the cattle dip: livestock taxes and the sinews of the state across a century
Timothy Gibbs

Interviews

Revenues and rural development
Sinegugu Zukulu

Water and the politics of rural service provision
Tess Peacock

Reviews

Nina Jablonski and Gerhard Maré (eds) (2018) The Effects of Race: the devastating effects of rigid category-thinking. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media
Reviewed by Birgit Schreiber.

Salimah Valiani (2021) 29 leads to love: New and Selected Poems. Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Reviewed by Corinne Sandwith.

Paula Christina Roque (2021) Governing in the Shadows: Angola’s securatised state. London: Hurst
Reviewed by Claudia Gastrow.

Notes on Contributors