{"id":19763,"date":"2024-04-06T10:59:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/describe-the-developmental-agenda-of-intergovernmental-relations-and-cooperative-governance-for-local-government-using-examples-from-the-narrative\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T10:59:52","slug":"describe-the-developmental-agenda-of-intergovernmental-relations-and-cooperative-governance-for-local-government-using-examples-from-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/describe-the-developmental-agenda-of-intergovernmental-relations-and-cooperative-governance-for-local-government-using-examples-from-the-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe the developmental agenda of intergovernmental relations and cooperative governance for local government. Using examples from the narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Case study essay: <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

As the country settles from arguably one of the most
\nconsequential elections results our country has seen, questions have emerged
\nabout how coalitions so ideologically diverse can work together. The elections
\nhave revealed the resolve of voters to express their preferences of who should
\nbe responsible for decisions about issues on their doorstep. While the
\nConstitution establishes municipalities for the whole of the territory of South
\nAfrica, it constitutes government as national, provincial, and local spheres of
\ngovernment which are distinctive, interdependent, and interrelated.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The convergence of these provisions in how the country is
\ngoverned yields an intergovernmental relations intensive government and
\nrequires state organs to operate within the Chapter Three cooperative
\ngovernment principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The municipal elections resulted in hung councils. The sum
\nimpact of these hung councils when viewed from the perspective of hung
\nmunicipal budgets, is that a substantial portion of municipal budget spending
\nwill be subject to continuous coalition government negotiations and
\nvulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The capability of the national and provincial state to impact
\nthe local state will enter a phase where it will be mediated through policy
\nfilters<\/b> that advance one political hegemony or persuasion or the other,
\nsave for where the provincial or national governing hegemony is of the same
\npolitical party.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The impact on policy intents, how these policies are
\nspatially prioritised, whether the the success in the delivery of intents is
\nrecognised, and the extent to which government will use such progress as party
\npolitical victories, will be both unprecedented and defining in how coalition
\ngovernment cooperation matures in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The rise of genuine opposition politics in South Africa has
\nfirmly established a context where the Constitution’s schedule 4 and 5
\nfunctional areas of concurrent or exclusive legislative or otherwise competence
\nwill henceforth be expected to co- exist with voter power instead of being
\nfundamentally utilised to advance a party’s prerogative that are not voter
\nsanctioned. As the new democratic order assumes its government ‘of’,’ by’, and
\n‘for’ the people, a context of competing for approval to govern by voters will
\nforce innovation in how a centralized national government will relate to the
\nlocal sphere of government.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The way intergovernmental relations (IGR) were handled
\npreviously left local government to not only assume a life of its own but
\nexpose policy ambiguities and uncertainties that put the sensitive issues of
\nfiscal reform and federalism back on the agenda. The ‘family-members-only’ IGR
\nsystem and practice apparent in the uncharacteristic application of section 100
\nand 139 intervention mechanisms liquidated national government’s capability to
\nnegotiate with other spheres as equal before the law organs of state envisaged
\nin the chapter 3 cooperative government principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The reach of the power of the Constitution, its rule of law
\nbasis, and the spirit of the cooperative government principles was for a while
\nlimited by the unfortunate ‘family-members-only’ approach to intergovernmental
\nrelations. The impact of this, though neutralisable, will be felt in the
\nposture of ‘provincial-governments-in-the-family’ towards the new and
\n‘voter-imposed’ ‘non-family-member-municipal-jurisdictions’ relationships and
\nrelations that have entered the local sphere of government.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

QUESTION 2 (15 Marks) <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In
\nthe narrative it is argued that the capability of the national and provincial
\nstate to impact on the local state will enter a phase where it will be mediated
\nthrough policy filters that advance one political hegemony or persuasion or the
\nother, save for where the provincial or national governing hegemony is of the
\nsame political party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Describe
\n<\/span>the developmental agenda
\nof intergovernmental relations and cooperative governance for local government.
\nUsing examples from the narrative<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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