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TWENTY-TWO years after South Africa dumped the apartheid model for municipalities and adopted the wall-towall system, the government is admitting that the latest one has encountered serious financial setbacks.

The admission was made by Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma this week, during her opening address to the local government summit in Johannesburg.

The system meant that every inch of the country should be covered by a municipality, moving away from the apartheid system where certain areas, mainly black-dominated ones, were not covered for municipal services which are periodically levied.

More than two decades later,

Dlamini Zuma said the wall-to-wall model was flawed because it did not anticipate that municipal services would have to be provided to people who are indigent and unable to pay for them.

To remedy that poor foresight issue, she said they were looking at completely overhauling the funding model for municipalities. |

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