Municipal demarcation process in the establishment of the Collins Chabane Local Municipality and reasons for the eruption of Vuwani, South Africa

Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

 
 
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Title Municipal demarcation process in the establishment of the Collins Chabane Local Municipality and reasons for the eruption of Vuwani, South Africa
 
Creator Netswera, Mavis M. Nealer, Eric J.
 
Subject Collins Chabane Local Municipality; Vuwani; Malamulele; local government; demarcation process; protests; public participation challenges. Collins Chabane Local Municipality; Vuwani; Malamulele; local government; demarcation process; protests; public participation challenges.
Description The demarcation of municipal boundaries in post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by objections from affected communities. Beyond polarising-affected communities, proposed redeterminations regularly elicit destruction of public infrastructure and even loss of life. Hostilities over municipal boundaries which were drawn in the rural areas for the first time. This article is drawn from the highly publicised demarcation unrests experienced in the Vuwani area as a result of the newly established Collins Chabane Local Municipality in the Limpopo province. Findings reflected in this article emanated from data collected through the questionnaire, interviews and secondary data sources. Empirical evidence uncovers low levels of public participation in demarcation process by the residents. Actually, more people in Vuwani participated in the anti-demarcation protests in objection to the new municipality. The fact that violent protests regularly accompany municipal demarcation objections in South Africa could reflect an urgent need to improve the facilitation of meaningful public participation in the municipal demarcation process.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2020-04-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Survey/Interview
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/td.v16i1.674
 
Source The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa; Vol 16, No 1 (2020); 9 pages 2415-2005 1817-4434
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Municipal environments in Limpopo- and North West provinces Action research Municipal residents and officials
Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Mavis M. Netswera, Eric J. Nealer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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