JOHANNESBURG - A report by the Public Affairs Research Institute shows that the state of South Africa’s municipalities and local government as a whole is unsustainable and threatens the country’s entire developmental agenda.
It states that at some point there must be acknowledgement that the real problems in municipalities are structural and the continued investment of funds on capacity building is a pointless exercise. Dr Ledger argued that both structural and organisational factors contributed to the poor financial and operational outcomes of municipalities yet little attention was paid to the structural impediments.
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