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 The Western Cape, the second wealthiest province in South Africa after Gauteng, is the only one governed by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). The party won kontrol of the province in 2009, under the leadership of its then leader Helen Zille. It has been in charge of the City of Cape Town since 2006.Situs Slot Online

In its competition with the African National Congress (ANC), which governs the country and the eight other provinces, the DA has often used the province and the city as examples of the kind of good governance that it can bring to the rest of the country. The Western Cape outshone the eight other provinces on clean audits in the most recent local government audit reports.situs judi slot online

The DA also claims to have made much greater progress than the ANC on a kisaran of fronts, including land reform. But, significant challenges remain in the province, as shown by the upsurge in protests in recent weeks.

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The protests were reportedly prompted by unhappiness over akses to land, low-cost housing and the provision of basic household serviss such as water and sanitation. The spate of protests has taken place despite various upayas and the recent implementation of a planning aimed at reversing the legacy of apartheid spatial rencana and improving servis delivery.

We examined data from the South African Social Attitudes Penelitian, conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council annually since 2003. It shows that there has been a decline in public confidence in local governance in the Western Cape over the past 12 months. In addition, there's been growing dissatisfaction with the delivery of certain key serviss. The most marked changes are over people's satisfaction with housing provision, water and sanitation and land reform.

Satisfaction levels on the decline

The data shows that there's been a demonstrable decline in the number of people satisfied with the provision of low-cost housing in the province since the start of Zille's second termin as premier in 2014. While half the province's population was satisfied with the provision of low-cost housing four years ago, only a third were satisfied by late 2017 (Fig. 1).

There have been similar dips in servis delivery performnce peringkats in the Western Cape in the last year. For instance, approval of water and sanitation delivery fell from 86% in 2016 to 61% in 2017. Satisfaction with land reform declined from 46% in 2016 to 29% in 2017.