A Review of The Evolution of The Local Government System In South Africa: Towards Developmental Local Government
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v3i3.1486Keywords:
Local Government, Development, Municipal Government, South AfricaAbstract
South Africa can be referred to as a thriving democracy with explicit separation of powers between the legislative (national and provincial parliaments, including municipal councils), executive (national and provincial cabinets, including municipal councils), and judicial authorities. Its governance landscape has been transformed into three distinctive spheres of government with national, provincial and local governments executing their respective constitutional mandates in the spirit of cooperative governance; independent yet interrelated. This paper attempts to capture an overview of the third tier of governance in South Africa, namely municipal local government, with a focus on the agenda of developmental local government.
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