Voices | The governing party continues to fail to recognise the reasons it is collapsing in local government – and let us not forget that local government is the most important tier of government, because it directly provides services to residents
Those residents certainly know how to assess the effectiveness of local governments, as their daily lives are harshly affected by the absence of such services.
The party, due to internal power contestations, has used its factional dynamics to choose who becomes a councillor or a mayor because when regional, provincial and national conferences are held, that will help to ensure that its faction emerges victoriously. The ANC has no shame. How can it ask people who have no water to vote for it? Lots of money has been dispatched in the name of fixing our country’s water crisis, but we all know that the comrades were enriching themselves.