The ANC’s district development model is about central control, not co-operation
The model is a way of subordinating the constitutional autonomy of local and provincial government, and while it doesn’t propose a change to the constitution, it foreshadows it
05 February 2021 - 05:02
If months of economically ruinous lockdowns, followed by the bungling of the Covid-19 vaccine, hasn’t shaken your confidence in centralised government control, nothing will.
Even if President Cyril Ramaphosa arranges a publicity event for every shipment of the vaccine that trickles into the country, he can’t hide the fact that his government has left South Africans near the back of the global vaccine queue. And if the same government is to have exclusive control over the rollout of the vaccine, the lining of ANC pockets with taxpayers’ money is all but guaranteed. So much for the “good ANC”...
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