On Thursday, President Jacob Zuma said there has been clear progress in basic service delivery in certain municipalities since the end of the apartheid era. He said the post-apartheid‚ government had continued to work hard to achieve radical and meaningful change in the performance of local government, which was not the case in the past. "Apartheid geography and centralised spatial planning ensured that the majority of our people were housed and located in marginal areas from the city centres‚ far away from the economic hub and opportunities, as well as from services [and] this perpetuated their exclusion from the economy‚" said Zuma. He gave municipal representatives up to 15 years to ensure that previously disadvantaged communities benefit from the country’s resources. "A municipality’s objective must also be to turn the tide against the current spatial patterns of apartheid in the next five to 15 years‚ though better and co-ordinated land-use management‚ ensuring that a new built...
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