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Minister, MECs present multi-pronged Local Government intervention |
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Minister, MECs present multi-pronged Local Government intervention to turn the tide on service delivery protests
Pretoria, 04 March 2010 - The implementation of the Local Government Turn Around Strategy (LGTAS) provides a long-term and sustainable citizen-centred intervention, which is aimed at turning the tide on service delivery protests by dealing with the backlogs and complaints from citizens, which government agrees are valid in the main.
Parallel to the implementation of the LGTAS, the department is at the same time boosting the capacity for rapid response to communities that have embarked or are about to embark on protest action, using the existing staff we have. |
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Cabinet Approves Local Government Turnaround Strategy |
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Cabinet approved a comprehensive Local Government Turnaround Strategy on the 2nd of December 2009. The Strategy was presented to Cabinet yesterday by the Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Mr. Sicelo Shiceka. It is underpinned by two important considerations. The first is that a “one size fits all” approach to municipalities is not useful or acceptable. Each municipality faces different social and economic conditions and has different performance levels and support needs. Thus a more segmented and differentiated approach was required to address the various challenges of municipalities. Click here to download LG Turnaround Strategy
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