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Subesh Pillay is a social and political commentator, local government governance adviser and former city councillor in Tshwane. In 2016 he was conferred the title of Alderman for his service of over 20 years to the city. He is a former member of the national executive committee of the South African Local Government Association.
As SA’s democracy heads towards 30 years, we need to critically assess what needs to be done differently to become Madiba’s miracle nation
By growing the revenue base and collecting revenue owed by people who can pay for these services, municipalities will be in a position to fund non-revenue generating social…
Their collection capacity is constrained and they have to deliver bulk services. Solutions would be to create a single local government revenue collection agency and some form of…