During the local government elections we heard much about accountability, from political analysts who don’t understand the system.
During a TV debate, an analyst said ward councillors should be held accountable for poor service delivery. Really?Common sense may suggest that if service delivery is poor, your ward councillor should be nailed. Yet there are flaws in the local government legal framework which make such accountability problematic.
In a Trumpian fantasy world you can simply point a finger and say “you’re fired”. In South Africa, we have worker-friendly labour laws, overlain by municipal legislation making it difficult to get rid of nonperformers at any level.
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