The meeting took place in Cape Town where Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) discussed their concerns with how the South African Government has been managing the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The […]

CLCB attended the Making all Voices Count Community of Practice Meeting. The meeting centred on Open Government Partnership, particularly the third OGP National Action Plan under the theme P4Partnership- Strengthening […]

The aim of the meeting was to create a platform for municipalities and businesses to discuss how the municipality business environment can be improved to accommodate effective municipal-business collaboration and […]

To close off the Business Climate Benchmark Project, CLCB in Collaboration with the Holland Business Chamber hosted a Business Trade Fair. The trade fair enabled a networking platform for the […]

Give a Girl Child a Smile Campaign is a campaign that was initiated by CLCB in partnership with Tim Du Toit Attorneys in September 2016. With this campaign, CLCB aimed […]

The EU-LA Mining Programme was officially launched by CLCB and its partners VNG-International and Musina Local Municipality on 24 April 2018. The purpose of the launch was to introduce the […]

On 9 May 2018, CLCB was part of the Europe Day celebrations. This is a day set aside to celebrate the existence of the European Union (EU) and to network. […]

The EU-LA Mining Programme partnered with Thabazimbi Local Municipality for their second mining forum. The aim of the forum was to create a platform for the municipality and the mining […]

The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHi) and the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in collaboration with the EU-LA Mining Programme  held a workshop to introduce the Mineral […]

The Municipal –Mining Guideline and Toolkit Creation Workshop was held on 9 October 2018, and aimed to grant an opportunity to the EU-LA Mining Programme’s beneficiary municipalities and other selected […]

CLCB started the year off by attending a Mineral Law in Africa Workshop (MLiA) hosted by The University of Cape Town’s Department of Mineral Law, which took place from 12th […]

20 May 2019 was what has been marked in history as EU day (European Union day). EU delegations together with the European Investment bank, South African counterparts in Government, Civil […]

The Innovation and Local Economic Development Workshop was tailored to set the tone for the year, and to equip the Programme’s beneficiary municipalities’ officials with the necessary required capacity to […]

The Concept Note and Programme Development Workshop aimed to prepare the Programme’s beneficiary municipalities’ officials and stakeholders for the Netherlands Study Visit . This was to ensure that everyone is […]

As part of the EU-LA Mining Programme, the CLCB Team, its stakeholders and the five beneficiary municipalities embarked on an international study visit to the Netherlands. The study visit took […]

The Post Netherlands Study Visit Workshop created a platform for participants to share lessons learnt at the Netherlands Study Visit, and to identify lessons that can be effectively implemented in […]

In response to the challenge faced by many localities, of almost non-existent communication between the municipality and stakeholders in the community, Musina Local Municipality together with CLCB organised a Mayoral […]

Musina Local municipality had their Strategic Planning Session with the objective of ensuring that their municipal plans and policies are consistent and coherent. With the support of CLCB and its […]

CLCB was honoured to receive an invitation from Thabazimbi Local Municipality to give an overview of the EU-LA Mining Programme and to motivate and empower the officials that gathered for […]