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One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Is It Time To Make Provinces History?

Picture: www.SACarRental.co.za Dale T. McKinley - If there is one thing that history has regularly taught us, whether at the individual or collective level, it is that what might seem like a good idea at the time often ends up becoming something very different when put into practice. With the benefit of seventeen years of democratic hindsight, nowhere is this lesson more applicable than in respect of South Africa’s provincial tier of government. During those heady days of constitutional negotiations in the early 1990s, despite the...