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🗳 It makes no sense to fight for the right to hold the keys to service delivery, if the biggest victim in the fight is service delivery, writes Richard Chemaly.

To call this madness is probably accurate but then listening to the remarks seems like the encore nobody asked for.

The same can’t be said of local government in many of these areas. It’s amusing because people are fighting to occupy the positions to offer service delivery at the expense of offering service delivery. When I look at successful coalitions, there’s a common thread – they have their agreements up front and part of that agreement is to let the elected executives execute on behalf of the people.

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