[OPINION] Citizens need to know the state will execute its public functions through the efficient use of resources while treating everyone fairly and equally. Moneyweb SouthAfrica
In 2021, the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation published a report reflecting on the levels of trust in government and other state institutions. The results – unsurprisingly – showed that the loss of faith in the state was a real phenomenon. In the local context, the various factors cited as contributing to the declining faith included the persistence of inequality, corruption, violence and crime.
Two problems A twin set of problems has emerged that undermine this mission – underspending and diversion of spending away from critical services like public infrastructure. Read:Capital expenditure in metros sorely lacking Given the fact that no municipality can argue that it has provided all the public services its citizens require, it is always problematic to hear of budgets being sent back to the national fiscus due to the inability of local government structures to spend them as planned.
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