Abstract
This empirical paper sought to determine the lack of public participation and good governance, and to understand who is turning the blind eye on the issue. Local government municipalities have the obligation to exercise good governance, this is to ensure that there is quality service delivery and engagements between the municipalities becomes greater. Therefore, the municipalities are therefore responsible to establish the criterion for participation, transparency, adherence to the rule of law, effectiveness, equity, responsibility, accountability, and consistency. However, in the local government all these important aspects of good governance are neglected and avoided. The question of who is fooling who? Is basically an intention to point out that the idea of good governance does not have a single side but the public, the organisations and the state are included? For the good governance and the democracy of participation there must be an increase in the quality of feedback and the processes of policy formulation, and most importantly with the prevalence of participation. In the south African local government, municipalities have diluted the importance of public participation and that has caused the growing corruption scandals, protests, low service delivery and failing governments.
Highlights
Good governance as the body of public participation, is important for municipalities to know their part in promoting this factor
Public participation and good governance The respondents stated that the problem is that there is not a clear involvement of the citizens in the planning and implementation of the municipal services
Most of the times there are projects that come to the municipality without them knowing and obviously the communities are not going to be informed of the service
Summary
Good governance as the body of public participation, is important for municipalities to know their part in promoting this factor. While people try to find their way into the public administration affairs, the concept of governance is finding its new place. This entails that the relationship between the state and the citizens is even more important. The question that lies upon us is what the government is doing to promote good governance This is because one of the most important responsibilities as the state and the public is carry to good governance in our ideas and our daily activities if we are willing to find peace and greater living standards. Local government municipalities in South Africa should be understood that they form part of the organizations and entities that provide services to the communities and good governance is crucial. In a country like South Africa, there should be a need to acknowledge the fact that the term public becomes even more inclusive, and focus
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