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1. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Lucky Mathebula

   FM LUCKY MATHEBULA | Municipalities must escape the trading services trap (opens the original)

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   South Africa’s crisis of local government is often described as a crisis of service delivery. This is true, but it is not enough. The deeper failure is that many municipalities never completed the constitutional journey from local authorities to fully fledged spheres of developmental government. They changed their names, boundaries, councils and legal status, but too many retained the old administrative imagination: receive revenue, provide trading services, maintain infrastructure if possible,

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2. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Lucky Mathebula

   LUCKY MATHEBULA | The African Century will be built by development, not border panic (opens the original)

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   Africa’s migration debate is usually framed as a crisis of borders, legality and social pressure. In South Africa, the handling of undocumented migrants has placed citizenship, belonging and state capacity at the centre of public argument. But migration is not simply an administrative failure or a policing problem. It is a diagnostic lens through which Africa’s deeper structural condition becomes visible: uneven development, fragmented regional economies, weak labour-mobility regimes, fragile so

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