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Up one levelMunicipal Protests: Service Delivery as the Principal Axis of Discontent?
As South Africa reels with the shock of simmering xenophobia related social unrest erupting into violent attacks on foreigners, questions are being raised as to how this situation came about. Admire Mare analyzes the recent spate of xenophobic attacks and traces the origins to recurrent municipal service delivery challenges that have come to negate the noble objectives of a developmental local government.
Post-Xenophobic Violence Environment Presents Daunting Challenges For Municipalities
Recent events have shown that poor service delivery, economic squeeze and competition for scarce resources has the potential to inflate the masses’ anger to violence and other forms of civil strife meant to draw policy makers’ attention to pressing socio-economic challenges.