Local Government Reform in South Africa: The Quest for Review and Repositioning of Municipal Administration
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Abstract
The endemic municipal governance problems experienced since the dawn of the democratic dispensation \nmanifested through the constant dysfunctional state of municipalities, poor financial performance and poor political \nleadership clearly necessitate that the national government should revisit and review the constitutional powers granted to \nthe sphere of local government and contemplate introducing a pragmatic model of running municipal affairs. This paper \nargues that there is a need to review and reposition the model of local government in order to ensure that municipalities \nappropriately fulfil their constitutional obligations. The existing research pointed to the relevance of the application and \nutilisation of the different categories of municipalities, thereby enabling the effective delivery of services to communities. \nTherefore, the review will amongst others, entail the critical examination of the interventions spearheaded by the national \ngovernment namely, the Project Consolidate; Municipal Turnaround Strategy/Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent; \nOperation Clean Audits-2014 and the recently launched Back-to-Basics approach. Based on literature and document \nreviews this article concludes that the abovementioned interventions have not yielded the desired results yet, if the \ncurrent performance of municipalities such as Madibeng, Maquasi-Hills, Lekwa-Teemane, Randfontein, Thaba Chweu, \nBushbuckridge and Mtubatuba is anything to go by. The outcomes point to the urgent need for a review of the current \nmodel of local government that is utilised within a developing society, which is mired with many developmental \nchallenges. This is relevant because South Africa aims at becoming a capable and developmental state as encapsulated \nin the NDP (National Development Plan) 2030 and for it to achieve such, municipalities are a critical enabler since they \noperate at the grassroots level.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".