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Item The relationship between traditional authorities and municipal councillors and its impact on local development: A Case study of the AmaNdebele Ndzundza Sokhulumi community(2018) Phakathi, MpumeleloThis study explores the relationship between traditional authorities and municipal ward councillors, in a democratic South Africa. The conflict between customary law and the Constitution of South Africa. The focus of this study is to investigate how this relationship impacts on local development of traditional communities by observing different government structures within the community who are responsible to bring about local development and services delivery. The objective is to understand and observe the process of how different components within this community relate, looking at the obvious and imperceptible factors which interfere with the functioning of the institutions. The interest of this research is centred on understanding how the interface between traditional authorities and municipal ward councillors is expressed at local sphere of government. This study is based on detailed empirical work obtained through first hand research in KwaSokhulumi Traditional Community, using the case study design. This study is qualitative in natured and used in-depth, structured and unstructured interviews to collect data. This was beneficial to this study as it provided complex textual descriptions of how community members and leaders experienced the dual system of governance within their community. Further, providing information about the human side of an issues such as beliefs, emotions, behaviours, opinions and how they relate to these institutions. The methods used were effective in identifying intangible facts, such as social norms, gender roles, socioeconomic status, tradition and culture. This study found that the relationship between traditional authorities and municipal ward councillor is not good and it is complicated by the fact the Constitution and other municipal Acts do not stipulate what are the roles of traditional authorities in local government. Worsened by the overlap in roles of traditional authorities and municipal ward councillor. This study also found that legitimacy contributes to the tension because both these institutions understand legitimacy different. Lastly, Hierarchy, of who comes first or who has the mandate to develop the community was a stumbling block to local development and resulted in breakdown in the relationship. The impacts of this tension are obvious and can be seen/experienced in the community of Sokhulumi. There is a breakdown in trust between community members, traditional authorities and municipal ward councillor. This study found out that developmental projects are delayed because of this breakdown of relationship and contestation of power.Item The role of traditional leadership in local government(2016) Baloyi, Tshepang BrigidThe study explores the role of traditional leaders in the Greater Taung Local Municipality (GTLM) situated in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West Province. The purpose of the study is to investigate the role and the participation of the traditional leadership in the Greater Taung Local Municipal affairs, as well as to establish the factors leading to the tension between the traditional leaders and the municipal councillors in the municipality. Furthermore, the study proposed leadership strategies aimed at harmonising the relations between the Greater Taung municipal councillors and the traditional leaders, with the aim of ensuring sound collaboration and partnership between the two important stakeholders in provision of service delivery and development, a partnership that is more likely to improve good governance and service delivery in the area of jurisdiction of Greater Taung Local Municipality.Item Continuity or rupture? : the shaping of the rural political order through contestations of land, community, and mining in the Bapo ba Mogale traditional authority area(2016) Malindi, StanleySouth Africa’s countryside’s are rich in ‘new’ high-demand metal and energy minerals, like platinum and uranium, as well as vast, untapped reserves of industrial staples, above all coal. Yet, these are also characterised by deep rural poverty and legally insecure systems of ‘customary’ tenure, under the local administrative control of traditional authorities. Here, new mining activity is setting in motion significant processes dispossession and Immiseration that are at once tracing, reconfiguring and widening the class, gender and other social divisions that define these rural settings. Communal land is frequently alienated with little or no compensation, local residents forcibly removed to make way for surface infrastructure, and scarce water and other natural resources polluted and depleted. At the same time political tensions are arising from the assumption that local chiefs are ‘custodians’ of the mineral-rich land under their jurisdiction. Questions of land, livelihood and rural democracy are thus intimately bound together on the new frontiers of the regional extractives boom in ways that are having profound implications for growing numbers of the rural poor. Using a case study of the Bapo ba Mogale traditional Authority in the North West Province, South Africa, this thesis seeks to explore how these new mining activities are shaping and reconfiguring the heightened political contestations over the institution of traditional leadership in the area, the definitions of community and belonging/exclusion, and the struggles over land ownership and how mining capital is shaping these struggles and is connected with these struggles