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MANDLA LETLAPE | Municipalities need trained administrators, not political micromanagers (opens the original)
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South Africa does not suffer from a shortage of political promises about fixing municipalities. It suffers from a shortage of professionally trained, protected and accountable administrators who can turn lawful political decisions into working services. The City of Johannesburg once showed what is possible. Between 2001 and 2006 it delivered at scale by tarring roads across Soweto and helping to repair the spatial damage left by apartheid neglect. That work required more than speeches. It requir
MANDLA LETLAPE | The emperor is naked: South Africa’s municipalities are fiscally broken (opens the original)
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Let us stop pretending. South Africa’s model of wall-to-wall developmental local government is not financially sustainable. The evidence is visible in collapsing infrastructure, unpaid creditors, unreliable services and municipal arrears to Eskom that have now reached about R119bn. This is more than a service-delivery crisis. The constitution did not establish municipalities as administrative outposts of national or provincial government. It made local government a distinct sphere — different fr
MANDLA LETLAPE | Crucified or criminal: what’s at stake in Idac’s action against Masemola? (opens the original)
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Crucify him ― this was the general response to the charging of the accounting officer of the police department, Gen Fannie Masemola. The president has acceded to this demand. Masemola has been removed from office. South Africa is constituted as a constitutional democracy that is based on the rule of law. One non-negotiable principle of the rule of law is innocent until proven guilty and equality before the law. Hearing the other side is also sacrosanct. But what are the facts? What is he charged
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