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108222
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This article considers the ways in which sub-councils 'bring government closer to the people' by creating an intermediary level between local wards and the metropolitan council in Cape Town. Daily encounters between administrative staff, elected representatives and local communities within an impoverished formerly 'black' area demonstrate the intricacy of interactions and relationships between governing strategies from above and the tactics of the governed from below. Beyond conflicting objectives and rationalities, I argue that citizenship may be defined as a constant negotiation of legitimacy between stakeholders, never definitely trapped 'below' or 'above' the actual challenges of the city.
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This paper unpacks the tension between social movement claims to basic services and local authority efforts to deliver within a progressive legislative context. It does this by exploring the challenges of public accountability in urban water service delivery through drawing on the lessons learnt from the implementation of the 'Raising Citizens' Voice in the Regulation of Water Services' methodology in two South African cities over a four-year period. This paper argues that citizens' ability to access the state is restricted by internal fragmentation across spheres of government and between politicians and officials. Compounded by a lack of recourse in the service delivery landscape, fragmentation significantly restrains the ability of citizens to access the state.
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108223
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2011.
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Evidence from a recent study suggests that perceptions of corruption within the South African housing programme are widespread. This paper explores the pervasiveness of such perceptions and argues that they may reflect a range of factors, including the opacity, clumsiness and arbitrariness of the housing programme. Offering both positive and negative accounts, the paper considers the ways in which perceptions of corruption shape the manner in which residents access and respond to the state.
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108226
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2011.
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In this paper we reflect on a contested land occupation in Cape Town, the informal settlement of Zille Raine Heights in the city's southern suburbs, to explore the settlement's struggle to gain a legal right to land and the state's attempts to remove it. In occupying land and defending their right to a decent place in the city, Zille Raine Heights and other settlements like it challenge the state in precise ways. This paper explores the provisional and unstable ways in which land occupiers and the state access and defend resources such as land, and in the process, engage in a politics of occupation together.
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108221
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2011.
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The paper revisits participation and decentralization in relation to local clientelism, arguing that they share the personalization of links between residents and the state and the local possibility to adapt state policies. The line between decentralization-participation on the one hand, and clientelism on the other, is therefore easily blurred. The paper then argues that clientelism is not per se anti-democratic, some forms allow for local and immediate accountability of politicians. However, in most cases, it contributes to fragment or sedate local organizations or social movements and it prevents contestation of existing policies and dominant power structures. The paper thus challenges the idea that the promotion of decentralization and participatory institutions intrinsically leads to more democratic forms of government.
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108224
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2011.
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This article examines the water distribution systems in Johannesburg and Mumbai to argue that the political and institutional contexts of service delivery shape people's access to the state and its resources, and also mediation between citizens and government institutions by councillors. Through ethnographies of water supply and distribution systems in Mumbai and Johannesburg, I explain how the organizational structure of the water utility, institutional arrangements of service delivery, regulatory systems, councillors' proximity to decision makers and their relationship with municipal officials, civil servants and party members variously influence councillors' mediation capacities and their ability to fulfil the claims of their constituencies for piped water supply and connections.
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