OPINION | The Johannesburg municipality presents the best available case study of the perils palace coalition politics at local government level has brought to the electorate, argues Ebrahim Harvey.
Whether it be in Johannesburg, Tshwane or Ekurhuleni municipalities or elsewhere in the country, where local government election results were hung in 2021, immense damage has been done to both the fabric of municipal governance and especially what is putatively called 'service delivery', writes the author.
The Johannesburg municipality presents the best available case study of the perils that palace coalition politics at local government level have brought to the electorate, arguesImmediately after the 2021 local government election results were announced, I predicted in a Business Day article that we would have a stormy and chaotic state of affairs in all hung municipal councils, in which no single party won an outright majority.
And nowhere more chaotic, convoluted, messy and unfortunate has it been than in the powerhouse of production and nerve-centre of the economy, Johannesburg. In fact, the Johannesburg municipality presents the best available case study of the perils palace coalition politics at local government level have brought to the electorate. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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