How RACC Supports the President’s Call for Shared Development
What if rural South Africa became investable? After the President’s address, here’s the mechanism that turns recognition into real economic momentum.
What if rural South Africa became investable? After the President’s address, here’s the mechanism that turns recognition into real economic momentum.
South Africa’s governance challenge is not only about budgets, elections, or service delivery. It is structural. We operate with two systems that both exist in real life: the constitutional state — modern, centralised, administrative traditional leadership — local, legitimacy-based, community-rooted The problem is not whether traditional leadership exists. It does. The problem is that its role is too often unclear, inconsistent, and under-institutionalised — especially in rural areas where land, identity, and daily governance are inseparable. When roles are ambiguous, accountability fails. When accountability fails, communities lose protection.