The evolution of local governance needs agile new thinking

What is needed is a sober analysis of whether prevailing conditions enable or undermine the building of developmental local government

31 October 2021 - 00:00 By Busani Ngcaweni

Attempting to understand local governance in SA today, both the forces that have shaped its development and its current state, calls to mind the words of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto that “the past is many nations’ present”...

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