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Lack of basic services: Empty buckets belonging to the residents of a sprawling informal settlement on the outskirts of Lawley, Johannesburg, are lined up waiting for a water truck to fill them up. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Get people involved in development

Service delivery is about improving people’s lives, not expedient election promises

Hloniphile Simelane

In the cold: South Africa has progressive policies to involve citizens in such processes as municipal budgeting and planning, but this is seldom or ineffectively implemented. Photo: David Harrison

HLONIPHILE SIMELANE

Civil society requires a reorientation

Informal settlement clusters are a way to improve people’s participation in local government

Hloniphile Simelane