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Item An investigation into the state of municipal service delivery: a case study of Vhembe district(2011-11-28) Makananisa, Takalani DanielThis study is set out to investigate municipal service delivery in the Vhembe district with specific reference to the following areas:- The nature and level of community participation, councillors’ understanding of their functions, roles and responsibilities and capacity required of local municipalities to deliver quality services based on their constitutional and legislative competencies. For the past eight years, municipal service delivery protests have become prevalent in South Africa. Even after the 2008 National and Provincial elections, more cases of service delivery protests were reported. All indications are that service delivery is a phenomenon that needs to be explored to provide understanding of the deep rooted problem areas affecting municipalities. A qualitative study was undertaken to enable the researcher to provide answers to questions related to whether communities are participating in the activities of the municipalities, whether or not councillors have the necessary understanding, of their roles and responsibilities for example, communicating information to their constituency regarding service delivery progress, and whether municipalities have the required capacity to deliver quality services. The key findings of this study are that there is a need to come up with a model which ensures that municipal councils are no longer situated in towns but in the villages, that there is a need to rethink political deployment as it is believed to impact 10 negatively to the capacity of municipalities to deliver services, and that the lack of monitoring and evaluation of councilors’ performance is increasingly causing challenges, and undermining the purposes and intentions of developmental local government.Item Capacitating rural communities for participation in the integrated development planning process.(2008-04-11T12:07:29Z) Mogaladi, Ramatsobane ShokyDespite stipulations in local government legislation that Municipalities should build the capacity of the local communities to enable effective public participation and to foster community participation in local government, little is known on how municipalities capacitate their people staying in the rural areas to participate effectively in the IDP process. This research study investigated, explored and analyzed capacity building programmes used by Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality to capacitate its people staying in the rural areas to participate effectively in the IDP process. The study was conducted through qualitative interviews with officials working and people living in two rural wards. An analysis of the interviews yields that Lepelle-Nkumpi municipality does not have a capacity building policy or strategy for promoting effective participation of people in the IDP process. The capacity building programmes used by the municipality are more focused on ward committees, ward councilors and project steering committee members than on traditional leaders, small businesses and other people staying in the rural areas. The municipality has planned training programmes for ward committees, ward councilors and project steering committee members and none for other people. Information sharing is done through ward committees, municipality and council meetings for all categories of citizens. People who practise subsistence farming are capacitated through agricultural research based interventions. Skills development programmes are used to enhance participation of project steering committee members in monitoring the implementation of IDP projects. The capacity building programmes are effective in making people aware of structures they can use to participate in the IDP process and to participate during IDP project implementation and to a minimal extent enhances people’s participation in monitoring the implementation of IDP projects. The Municipality’s capacity building programmes enhances people’s skills to participate effectively during implementation of IDP projects and not in the decision making during analysis, strategies and approval phases of the IDP process.