The School of Public Leadership at the South African University of Stellenbosch University, in co-operation with the South African Centre for Constitutional Rights and the European Academy's Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, recently held a 3 day conference on strengthening Constitutional Democracy with a specific focus on provincial and local government. The aim of the conference hosted in the country's mother city of Cape Town was to establish interaction between academics and professionals, to contribute to finding solutions to some of the practical problems faced by societies in multi-sphere systems of government. To help us unpack there issues we spoke to Professor Erwin Schwella and Senior Lecturer Dr Dirk Brand of the University of Stellenbosch, and Phephelaphi Dube, a Legal Officer at the Centre for Constitutional Rights ....
