Local government revamp needed for district development model to work
A transformative form of politics and public participation could help cut the number of service-delivery protests
SA’s local government sector has struggled to meet the aspirations of the citizenry in the past decade. The decade was characterised by seemingly unending civil protest, especially service-delivery related, to the point where SA was at one point referred to as the protest centre of the world.
Unfortunately, this phenomenon is showing no signs of abating. In fact, there is a high probability that the trend will increase if government and citizens cannot or will not work together to address the various multinatured effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need for a transformative form of politics that will generate a new, citizen-centred approach to co-operative governance. The state must aim is to collaborate with ordinary citizens in developing the areas where they live, and uphold governance and ethical leadership practices as a new norm...
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