A scrupulous municipal manager, with buy-in from his mayor, sweated the small stuff — and the large and turned a consistently errant municipality into a well-run one.
Turning a consistently errant municipality into a well-run one may be “tedious”, but it can be done.
Take the Mnquma local municipality in the Eastern Cape, an area of 3,270km² about 90km up the coast from East London whose major urban centre is Butterworth. ..A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and TimesLive Premium.
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