A reflection on the first decade of a democratic and transformed local government in South Africa 2001-2010.

The purpose of this report

SOUTH African cities are under the national and international spotlight again. Community protests over service delivery, disputes about councillor selection, mismanagement and underspending of municipal budgets, and recurrent billing problems have attracted growing public concern. Yet cities have also been fêted for rekindling a spirit of national unity during 2010, delivering world-class transport schemes and leading the economy out of recession.

Report [in pdf format]:

• Cover [181kb]
• Towards Resilient Cities [561kb]
• Map [169kb]
• Acknowledgements [990kb]
• Contents [990kb]
• Foreword [150kb]
• Cities Leadership Timeline [96kb]
• Chapter 1: Introduction [11.22mb]
• Chapter 2: The Economy of Cities [3.10mb]
• Chapter 3: The Built Environment [4.25mb]
• Chapter 4: Cities as life-supporting Systems [3.34mb]
• Chapter 5: City Governance [2.14mb]
• Chapter 6: The Financial State of the Cities [3.32mb]
• Chapter 7: Conclusion [1.25mb]

You can also download the State of Cities Report Summary here [2mb]

SA Cities SoCR Leaflet. Click here to view.

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