As a regular listener of this show you will know how we’ve been focus a lot on the state of our municipalities and speaking to those running them. Well, yesterday (Thursday) the Human Sciences Research Council released their public officials skills and capacity study which was conducted between 2019 and 2021 across eight municipalities. One of the findings is that municipalities in rural areas are the most inefficient when it comes to service delivery. To tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by….

Guest: Dr Joleen Steyn Kotze – Senior Research Specialist: Democracy and Citizenship in the Developmental, Capable, Ethical State research programme in the Human Science Research Council