William Saunderson-Meyer Reviews The Failure of Decentralisation in South African Local Government
Verdict: carrot
It was as if social discontent is not a seething issue in South Africa, surging constantly against the breakwaters of complacency.
But it seems that neither the government’s intelligence networks nor the governing party’s savvy predicted this, had a coherent plan on how to deal with it.
This ignorance thrived despite the fact that political unrest has grown steadily, especially regarding failed service delivery. At local government level there have been heaved rocks, councillors hounded from sacked homes and burning tyre barricades, to which the police have responded with rubber bullets and teargas, escalating eventually to live rounds and deaths.
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- The Failure of Decentralisation in South African Local Government: Complexity and unanticipated consequences by Andrew Siddle and Thomas Koelble
EAN: 9781919895055
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