The Reasons Behind Service Delivery Protests in South Africa.

South Africa is breaking records for all the wrong reasons in 2018. Joining outrageous petrol prices on the highest podium are service delivery protests, which according to reports, are setting a.

Service Delivery, Public Representation and Social Protests in East London, South Africa.

Poor service delivery by local government is crippling South African businesses and impeding growth. The government departments concerned fail to get the job done because they do not employ enough qualified and skilled people. Since 1967, output per worker per unit of capital in South Africa has fallen.

Corruption undermines state legitimacy and service delivery; South Africa remains a divided society. Being the, ahem, think tank that we are, Leader.co.za decided to assemble our own posse of respected intellectuals to thrash out the issues at hand. But this time round, we went in search of solutions. 1. Too few South Africans in work.

With regard to public service delivery, local municipalities have the obligation of creating income opportunities people, especially the poor, with the sole aim of contributing towards poverty reduction and the realisation of the expectations of people, as stated in the South African government's White Paper of transforming public service delivery.

A service contract is an agreement between a municipality and a service provider to provide a particular aspect of a municipal service on a short-term basis (only one or two years). The municipality provides the budget and monitors the performance of the service provider to ensure that the service provided is of a good quality and within the allocated budget.

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. It is often said to be the most unequal, but that is incorrect. A number of countries, for example Namibia and Seychelles, have higher gini coefficients (the measure most often used to measure income distribution) than does South Africa 1.There are a number of other countries that are clearly very unequal - some major oil.

In the recent past (2008-2013), the African National Congress (ANC) led government in South Africa has experienced an outcry from different communities around the country, concerning a lack of provision of services. These conditions to a certain extent led to the outbreak, of what became known as the service delivery protests in South Africa.

The findings revealed that the main service delivery problem was poor infrastructure followed by lack of clean water, poor refuse collection and limited access to health care. The main reasons given by respondents as to why infrastructure was poor included poor maintenance, lack of funding and inefficiency, and incompetence on the part of government (Chirisa 2010 :3; International Republican.

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Access to basic services appears to become increasingly difficult for the workers and landless peasants in South Africa due to instability in municipalities. This was again proven in December 2014 when a high-powered delegation of the ANC led by Jacob Zuma arrived in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro to disband the ANC Regional Executive Committee (REC).