Explain how the levels of National, Provincial and Local government address to the civil society
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Explanation:
three spheres of government have, at a meeting with President Jacob Zuma on Friday, committed to tackling issues affecting the country together.
This as government believes more work has to be done at a local government level.
“No level of government must face challenges on its own without getting assistance from others. There are many things we believe, after 22 years, we need to look at how we will move [forward],” said the President at the conclusion of the meeting.
The President’s Coordinating Council meeting was held at the Union Buildings in Pretoria and attended by a number of Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Premiers and South African Local Government Association (SALGA) leaders.
Provinces had the opportunity to give reports on the state of their municipalities and SALGA will give a presentation at the next meeting.
The President, who declared the meeting successful, said municipalities face challenges such as budgets and politics which compromise the services that must be rendered to citizens.
“We cannot allow that [to continue] because democracy is there to help improve the lives of our people.”
He said if municipalities are not able to work on issues like coalitions and fail to deliver services to the people, there must be a system within democracy that either the provincial or national government, or both, come in to intervene.
This would ensure that people do not suffer because of political issues.
“We cannot allow a situation which is under democracy to make ordinary people suffer.”