South Africa’s best-managed municipalities are in Gauteng and the Western Cape, according to a study released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“Western Cape and Gauteng municipalities remain typically the best managed and most competitive in a year ridden with protests,” Municipal IQ said in a statement releasing its Municipal Productivity Index (MPI) and Compliance and Governance Index (CGI).<\/p>\n
The MPI combines financial and other data to assess individuals’ ability to engage with local economies.<\/p>\n
The CGI focuses on how well municipalities are meeting basic planning, reporting, financial management, and capacity requirements.<\/p>\n
The City of Cape Town had the top score on the MPI, followed by Tshwane, and Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
“Tshwane rose to second place with robust spending contributing to its higher ranking in 2014.”<\/p>\n
Most of the best-performing local municipalities, eight out of 10 local municipalities, were in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n
The top two were Overstrand and Stellenbosch both in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n
Steve Tshwete in Mpumalanga came third, followed by Saldanha Bay, also in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n
Most service delivery protests this year had been in Gauteng.<\/p>\n
“Gauteng is narrowly ahead of the Eastern Cape as the most protest-ridden province for the first 11 months of 2014.”<\/p>\n
KwaZulu-Natal was in third place.<\/p>\n
Municipal IQ managing director Kevin Allan said municipalities in underdeveloped areas, such as former homelands, were struggling.<\/p>\n
Although there had been an improvement in compliance and capacity levels in struggling municipalities, these were not at the required standard.<\/p>\n
According to its website, Municipal IQ is a web-based data and intelligence service that monitors and assesses South Africa’s 278 municipalities.<\/p>\n
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