The Upliftment of South African Local Government?

Cameron, Robert

doi:10.1080/714004109

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“…South African local government has not been immune to these international trends and it too has been subjected to vigorous change. Indeed, few local government systems have undergone a greater degree of transformation (Cameron, 2001;Visser, 2001). …”

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Efficiency measurement of basic service delivery at South African district and local municipalities

Westhuizen

Dollery

2009

TDSA

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South Africa has experienced immense changes in the post- apartheid era and coordinated local public policy has sought to expand and improve the level of basic services provided to previously disadvantaged people. Local government has played a pivotal role in this process and has been subjected to intense reform in an effort to enhance its effective- ness and broaden its range of activities. While a number of scholars have examined the administrative, political and social dimensions of the local government reform program, little attention has focused on the economic efficiency of service delivery. This paper seeks to remedy this neglect by evaluating the productive efficiency with which municipal councils have delivered electricity, domestic waste removal, sanitation and water in line with their new responsibilities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) techniques applied to cross-sectional data covering the period 2006/2007 for 231 local municipalities and 46 district municipalities.

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Efficiency measurement of basic service delivery at South African district and local municipalities

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Dollery

2009

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“…It uplifted local government from a subordinate level of government to a significant sphere within its own right with constitutionally entrenched functions, powers and finance. In a general overview of the South African local government reforms, it was suggested that the results of this decentralisation experiment are at best mixed, with increasing centralisation measures being undertaken by the national government (Cameron, 2001). This article focuses specifically on local government finance, which is undoubtedly the weak link in the new local government system.…”

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Central-Local Financial Relations in South Africa

Cameron¹

2002

Local Government Studies

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“…In South Africa, the powers and functions of local government are entrenched in its constitution, making it one of the most advanced local government systems in the world (Cameron 2001). Municipalities fund basic services including water, electricity, refuse removal, fire-fighting and emergency services, selected social services and amenities, as well as a host of urban management services (South African National Treasury 2017).…”

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Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought

Simpson

Shearing

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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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At a time when flows of both water and finances were severely curtailed, this article explores the public and private adaptation actions which played out during Cape Town's drought which produced a 'shock within a shock' on the municipality's budget (2016-2018), this article provides a detailed and embedded account of the severity, urgency and complexity of the challenges that decision makers are faced with during such unanticipated events. Shifts in approaches are identified and traced through budget allocations to display uncharted governance arrangements which, although stabilising, present novel finance and governance challenges amidst altered resource and operating conditions. Reflecting on observed shifts and shock to the municipal budget, the article highlights the challenge of an uncoordinated response between public and private actors that aim to secure highreliability service delivery. Reflecting on the findings, recommendations outline resilience qualities necessary to municipal budgets through sketching contextually reflective questions for municipal financing models.

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The Upliftment of South African Local Government?

Cited by 21 publications

References 3 publications

Efficiency measurement of basic service delivery at South African district and local municipalities

Efficiency measurement of basic service delivery at South African district and local municipalities

Central-Local Financial Relations in South Africa

Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought

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