- Title
- An investigation of the functional responsibilities of the municipal councillors at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality during the Implementation of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP)
- Creator
- Nkombela, Lizwi Eric
- Subject
- Municipal officials and employees -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Local government -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MPhil
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20132
- Identifier
- vital:29129
- Description
- The study is undertaken to investigate the functional responsibilities of the municipal councillors at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality during the implementation of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP). It aims to examine the experiences and perceptions that ward councillors have of their representative and participatory roles, including the support provided by the local government during the implementation of the IDP at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. In the statement of the problem, the researcher has provided the basis and the rationale for this study. This study is undertaken against the backdrop of protest on service delivery as the current local government system struggles to effectively provide basic services to communities, as well as attend to their economic and social development needs. There are various factors that contribute to effective governance of local government, however, for the sake of this research not all of them will be studied by the researcher. The researcher has indicated some of the limitations in this study and will only focus on the ward councillors and their functional responsibilities at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. The contextualization of this study is premised on the existing theoretical, legislative and conceptual views that apply to functional responsibilities of the municipal councillors and these were drawn from various sources to quantitatively obtain the data for this study. The study also explains the research design and methodology applied to elicit information from a sample of 31 ward councillors of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. The quantitative data which was received through questionnaires was presented, analysed and discussed by the researcher. The researcher used the frequency distribution and percentage in order to draw up the conclusions and recommendations. The quantitative data revealed to a greater extent a positive response from the 31 ward councillors regarding their experiences and perceptions of their representative and participatory roles and their understanding of the support provided by the local government during the implementation of the IDP at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.
- Format
- iii, 75 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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