#RadicalCollaboration #PowerOfTheCircle
The third and timely thought provoking X (Twitter) Space on ‘thought-provoking dialogue session on ‘The Impact of Coalition Governments on Service Delivery’ will be the last discussion of the local governance campaign. Please join us on X (Twitter) Spaces as we explore the necessity of insulating bureaucracy from political interference, particularly in a multi-party democracy like South Africa’s. It will delve into the concept of a “depoliticized public sector” and discuss proposals to ensure the continuity of essential services even amidst leadership changes.
Our special guests for this discussion will be Tessa Dooms, Paul Smith and Mzwanele Mayekiso, who are notable experts in the field and will emphasise size the importance of establishing strong oversight mechanisms, professionalizing the public sector, and encouraging citizen engagement in municipal processes as potential solutions to mitigate the adverse effects of coalition governments on service delivery.
This conversation aims to raise awareness about the importance of active citizenship in advocating for and implementing sustainable solutions for infrastructure development.
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Speaker Bio’s
Khaya Sithole CA (SA)
Indepedent Facilitator
Khaya S Sithole – Chartered accountant, academic, activist, radio broadcaster, and writer. He served as the resident political and financial analyst, writer and talk show host on Kaya FM and Power FM and is a regular contributor on politics and finance for eNCA, Open News and the SABC and has written weekly columns for the Business Day, the Mail & Guardian and Fin24.
In 2016, he headed up the research team that created the Lesedi Education Endowment Fund which was presented to the Cabinet as part of the quest for finding a lasting solution to the university funding issue during the #FeesMustFall crisis.
Tessa Dooms
Tessa Dooms is a democracy, governance, and policy expert inspired by the values of participation, social justice, and human-centred design. With a focus on inclusion and participation, her ethos is that value creation and development can only happen if we invest in, empower, and leverage the capacities of human beings. She is currently the Director of Programmes at the Rivonia Circle, championing political participation at community levels and across sectors. The goal is to invite people back into new forms of political organising and contestation to strengthen democracy in South Africa.
She has worked across Africa, engaging youth, governments, politicians, corporations and non-government actors, and intergovernmental organisations, including the African Union and the United Nations. She has also served on the National Planning Commission of South Africa for over 5 years (2015- 2021), advising the President on national planning priorities related to youth development.
Mzwanele Mayekiso
Mzwanele is the author of “Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa” (Monthly Review Press, 1996), and co-editor of “Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising Society” (with Philip Harrison and Marie Hutchzermeyer, UCT Press, 2004. A prolific writer and leading black intellectual, he has contributed papers and think pieces for academic journals and newspapers, both locally and internationally. He is the owner and publisher of Ndivhuwo journal and CEO of the iKwezi Institute for Research and Development, Johannesburg.
Paul Smith
Paul has consulted into the Local Government sphere government since 1997 and has headed up the Kagiso Trust Local Governance program since 2010. Paul’s role in Kagiso Trust is to both manage consultancy business and continually innovate new approaches to local government sustainability and strengthening local governance structures to enable stakeholders to be collaborative in finding effective solutions that impact their communities.
Beyond KT Paul is a qualified business leadership coach, P2 project management practitioner and a graduate from Gibs and Said – Oxford University executive leadership program. Over the past 34 years Paul has implemented a radical collaboration project in Makana Municipality using radical collaboration as a mechanism to systemically influence the way communities and government engage and ideate to solve local issues. Paul is committed to supporting communities and local government to dismantle polarization, enabling collaboration and a catalyst for positive systemic change.
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