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- Title
Understanding the Municipal Demarcation Process in South Africa: Should Ethnicity be used as a Factor in the Municipal Demarcation Process? The case of Malamulele and Vuwani in the Limpopo Province!
- Authors
Mokgopo, Tshehledi Isaac
- Abstract
The sphere of local government is considered as the government that is closest to people. Its establishment gave citizen upper voice on municipal services in their areas. This also brought serious tension between communities and government. Some communities not only did they protest against inadequate service delivery, others fought against municipal demarcation decisions taken by the MDB. This include the Vuwani community in the Limpopo province who fought against the decision to be moved from one municipality to another. While the Malamulele community demanded its own municipality away from other ethnic group. This raised a question in this article as to whether the municipal demarcation process provides for the use of ethnicity in determining municipal boundaries in South Africa or not. The main purpose of this article is to analyse the municipal demarcation process and critic section 25 of the Municipal Demarcation Act 27 of 1998. In doing so reference will be made to the case of Malamulele and Vuwani where ethnic tensions regarding municipal demarcation took place.
- Subjects
LIMPOPO (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; MUNICIPAL services; ETHNICITY; LOCAL government; PROVINCES; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 2, p107
- ISSN
1819-8465
- Publication type
Article