With apartheid having left an imprint of spatial fragmentation in the South African urban
and rural landscape, there is a major challenge in most places in South Africa to create
integrated systems of local governance. Achieving integration of the remnants of selfgoverning
territories, independent homelands, old provincial administrations and
tricameral structures, is very difficult. The new political dispensation has raised the
aspirations and expectations of both the rural and urban areas but more especially poor
rural dwellers. Transitional Local Councils, appointed in 1995, inherited the task of
integration and service delivery. This was to be achieved, in part, through the
fannulation of an Integrated Development Plan for each TLC.
This study examines local governance and development planning in the Transitional
Local Council area of Greater Louis Trichardt in the Northern Province. The study
provides a background to the history of urban planning and changing urban space in
South Africa and in Louis Trichardt in particular. Structuration theory, Local Economic
Development theory and literature on public participation and local governance, were
used to raise questions about the planning and delivery of development in Louis
Trichardt. These questions were then answered through an intensive and extensive
research process in which both the residents of the TLC area, and the members of the
TLC structures, were interviewed about their perceptions.
The study found that there are still major constraints to the achievement of effective
development, integration and service delivery in the Greater Louis Trichardt Transitional
Local Council area. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/5391 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Sadiki, Madonoro Patrick. |
| Contributors | Scott, Dianne., Brooks, Shirley. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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