South Africa: Makana Local Municipality - Does Administrative Intervention Work?

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Makana is a municipality in crisis. It faces service delivery, administrative and financial challenges. Water supply across the municipality, and in Makhanda in particular, has been crippled by ageing infrastructure and a severe drought, say activists.

On Tuesday 3 November, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute, Public Affairs and Research Institute of South Africa (Pari) and the Mail & Guardian hosted a panel discussion on the municipal crisis faced by the Makana municipality.

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