Sicelo Shiceka
South Africa’s ruling ANC party is looking into changing the country’s provincial and local government structures and may scrap its province system all together, a move some say is being done to eliminate political opposition.
Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka says the scrapping of South Africa‘s nine provinces would be in an effort to structure local government more efficiently.
However, some provinces have become strongholds for opposition parties. This is most notably seen in the Western Cape, where the Democratic Alliance has removed ANC rule from the province. DA leader Helen Zille has shown up ANC incompetence by curtailing violent crime, lowering unemployment, and improving government services in the Western Cape.
South African Provinces (click to enlarge)
Shiceka has been seen by some as fascist, who also came out strongly in support in the Constitution 17th Amendment Bill (which can be downloaded here), which will give the government increased powers of intervention in both provincial and local government. He adopted a strongly unitary position, saying that South Africa was one country with one President and “nobody is expected to be out of tune.”
The intentions of the 17th Amendment have been strongly questioned and opposed, particularly in Cape Town and the Western Cape. The amendment has been characterized as a means for the ANC to maintain control in areas it has lost at the ballot box.
Shiceka says a decision would be made by March next year. Legal challenges are almost certain to follow.
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The ANC bullies are real sissies. They can't stand any healthy opposition and always try to flatten anyone standing up for real democracy and not that the fake democracy that they are holding forth for the masses!
to seceed will mean war with these people. We can expect the USA to send in troops to prevent any secesionist movement.
We can expect the USA to send in troops to prevent any secesionist movement.
Exactly Dodd, don’t forget the USA when it suits its interests on the other hand fosters secession in the name of the so called “Nation Building” like in Kosovo when they bombed Serbia into submission, they would do the same if tomorrow the Western Cape seeked its independence from “Azania”.
I’m so glad so we can this ridiculous talk of Boer homeland republics. South Africa is one nation under the ANC.
DA lower unemployment? Why are there more black middle class in Anc-run Gauteng? Coloured ppl (the main reason why the da keeps winning in the WC) are still very poor, so give me a break. I agree, one South Africa!