an activist’s guide

• introduction

• for more information please contact
  metumo shilongo
  shilongo@section27.org.za

The Making Local Government Work guide sets out the legal responsibilities of local government and our rights under the Constitution and in law. It shows how to engage government from inside, by participating in formal processes, and from outside by going public through complaints, petitions, protest action, the media and the courts.

This guide is a joint project by SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and Read Hope Phillips.

• endorsing organisations

The Black Sash, Built Environment Support Group (BESG), Children’s Right Centre, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), Equal Education, Planact, Probono.org, Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RUDASA), Rural Health Advocacy Project, the Social Justice Coalition, Sonke Gender Justice Network, Soul City, the South African Human Rights Commission, South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU), Students for Law and Social Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).