{"id":987440,"date":"2022-02-12T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/a-shift-of-influence-needed-to-enhance-municipal-governance\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T09:53:14","slug":"a-shift-of-influence-needed-to-enhance-municipal-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/a-shift-of-influence-needed-to-enhance-municipal-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"A shift of influence needed to enhance municipal governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Prof Sethulego Matebesi As South Africa approaches almost three decades of democracy, no sector has generated public outrage as much as local government. The 22-year history of local government \u2013 with its transformative agenda underpinned by a developmental and democratic approach \u2013 has been a challenging journey. Understanding how local government institutions and actors [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Prof Sethulego Matebesi As South Africa approaches almost three decades of democracy, no sector has generated public outrage as much as local government. The 22-year history of local government \u2013 with its transformative agenda underpinned by a developmental and democratic approach \u2013 has been a challenging journey. Understanding how local government institutions and actors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}