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and alleviating the chaos in South Africa’s hung municipalities is not likely to be passed by the time national and provincial elections take place next year.
Their frequency would also be limited, while parties would be required to commit to formal coalition agreements with fixed time frames in an attempt to create stability in hung councils which have been plagued by instability since 2016.office, said regulations limiting the frequency of no confidence and other measures were contained in the amendment bill drafted by the department.
While there may have been an expectation that the bill “was going to be focused on the national and provincial elections”, this was not the case. She said the bill should make it through parliament’s scheduling, but was likely to be shot down by the majority party and its allies. “Over and above increasing political maturity and lessons learned at local government level, we still need to have something in place which is enforceable, otherwise we run the risk of destabilising provinces – and perhaps even national government.”
“We are now in limbo and are waiting for everybody to come back and say they have approved. Only then will the process re-gather momentum,” Mde said.
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