
Last week we were pleased to host Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Velenkosini Hlabisa to address our council on progress with local government reform. The minister was refreshingly direct – local government reform is economic reform.
Dysfunctional municipalities are a binding constraint on investment and job creation, while functional ones are engines of growth. The problems afflicting municipal service delivery are the central challenge facing South Africa’s economic trajectory.
He was also candid about the causes of failure – he named cadre deployment explicitly as the…
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