NGOs Call for Municipalities to Fight Corruption

The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty say corruption and a lack of legislated decision-making powers are the biggest obstacles to improving local government.

The two organisations say corruption, along with municipalities’ lack of legislated decision-making powers, are the largest obstacles to the improvement of local government in the country.

SAIRR research, Lerato Moloi, says that three of the four major drivers of poverty identified by local councillors in a survey of municipal officers in SA’s eight largest metropolitan councils - access to services, incomes and poverty levels, healthcare and education - are outside their scope of influence.

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