Traditional leaders and new local government dispensation in South Africa

Traditional leaders and new local government dispensation in South Africa

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

South Africa

local government

traditional leadership

Approximately three quarters of population in South Africa live in rural areas and they are under the governance of traditional leadership, whose practice has been the source for controversy recently. The institution of traditional leadership has been regarded as the main ruling system closest and accepted by the people at the grassroots level. Local government in South Africa is presently in a process of fundamental transformation. One of the major problems South Africa inherited from apartheid was a structure of race based municipal boundaries. Demarcation is one of the controversial factors dogging the period of local government history. Demarcation was necessary to remove all traces of apartheid borders and to allow for more democratic municipal government.

Mthandeni, Eric Dlungwana

Territorial restructurings, comparisons and innovations Proceedings of the French‐South African meeting on territorial innovation. Recompositions territoriales : confronter et innover. Actes des rencontres scientifiques franco‐sud-africaines de l'innovation territoriale

Rencontres scientifiques franco-Sud-Africaines de l'innovation territoriale

2003

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00749691

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/74/96/91/PDF/Mthandeni_18.pdf

Grenoble - Avignon

France