Bring aboard the champions

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GOVERNANCE The paper examines government’s inter-governmental relations and its implications or challenges to the department’s leadership role under Project Consolidate, the State’s hands-on local government support and engagement programme, launched last year. South Africa’s political landscape has changed significantly since 1994, with the introduction of the three spheres of government (national, provincial and local). The new Constitution makes provision for an integrated, inter-sectoral, and cooperative approach to governance. These provisions commit all three spheres of government to be transparent in policy making and inclusive in its approach. Effective coordination within and between the spheres of government is clearly vital to the country’s reconstruction and development efforts. Perhaps understandably, given the recent transition to democracy and the continual political transformation, inter-governmental relations in South Africa are in a state of flux. At times, it is even dysfunctional.

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