WILLIAM GUMEDE | Municipalities have to clean up their acts. If they don’t, post-Covid SA will explode
Local governments, in a crisis worsened by Covid-19, must gather the political will to fight corruption, inefficiency as finances dwindle, but they’ll need help
22 September 2020 - 19:15
Covid-19 has unleashed a perfect storm of crises on SA’s ailing municipalities, combining existing inefficiencies, poor governance and corruption with rapidly diminishing revenues...
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