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Podcast: The Daily Discourse
Episode: Municipal Watch: Accountability and oversight at municipalities
Description: We kick off our Municipal Watch feature by looking at issues of accountability and oversight at municipalities. So often the Auditor General announces her findings on so many of the problematic municipalities that have collapsed due to corruption and incompetent officials, but nothing happens after that. They continue in the posts and corrupt practices. Most of the blame is pointed at political appointees. What is it that makes accountability and oversight so difficult at local government level? What lessons are we not learning and what seems to be at the core of the problem? To lead us in the...