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Public participation has been viewed as a method for strengthening local governance at the grassroots level of administration through an inclusive democracy and as an imperative portion of unprejudiced administration. Information sharing in administration is the foundation of continuous participatory procedures seen as the facilitators of aggregate insight and comprehensiveness, which are formed by the longing for the participation of the entire group or society. Using documentary method of analysis with empirical observations in the selected local municipalities in South Africa, this paper provides an insight into community and public participation in South Africa's local municipality. It further looks at the significance of public participation in governance and decision-making at the local level, the relevance of South Africa's decentralization of municipalities for local development and the effect. This paper concludes that public cooperation and participation in local government administration is a two-way imperative embracing and setting obligations for both local government authorities and the general public with persuasive communication, and a community critical thinking system, with the objective of accomplishing better governance for effective service delivery at the grassroots level. Using a content data analysis, it therefore recommended that, IDP as a process must democratically engage the public, in the assessment of current social, economic and environmental reality with the municipality.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Africa's history was hijacked and refurbished by the European colonialists and missionaries. They claim that there was no African history before the Europeans arrival in the shores of the continent. It is therefore imperative for Africa to go back and learn about her history, reconstruct her history before the invasion and colonization. The paper thus discusses the origin, sources and effect of the presence of the European in African education and history. The devastating effects of the slave trade era on the thought process of Africans around colonialism. It further stressed the point that slavery and colonization as being a lingering problem for Africa, with the emergence of western education learning process of Africa history, rather than African education. It also unearths the fundamental impact of African educational system and explores decolonization as the key process to re-discover Africa for development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A poor administration of governance is one of the dynamic reasons for states underdevelopment in Africa. This prompt the discourse on economic development, with the possibility that economic development needs sound administration to flourish, while good government policy promotes economic development. Nevertheless, the nature of administration and institution of development strategies, impacts on economic execution which directly leads to development. As indicated by the World Bank, good governance is assessed by the usage capacity of administration principles of a nation, giving a structure to both market development and economic enhancement. This study focuses on the concept of 'good governance' which delivers the subjective capacity of administration that shows the potent, effective, participative, and independent type of governance. These factors are responsible for the transparent and accountable management of social, natural, fiscal and economic resources for justifiable and sustainable development. Researchers articulate that states must have the ability to 'drive basic change in institutional, political, economic and social arenas,' with the aim to guarantee longterm financial, economic and political development in a nation. We discuss the concept of good governance as regards to African states while taking into account the level of development and governance capacity that depends on a structure, and the dispersion of political power that develops with time and could conceivably be certain for development. This study hopes that good management strategies must be pertinent if nations wish to achieve a sound level of economic, financial and sociopolitical development that empower states of good governance to support development. This study adopted a qualitative analysis by utilizing time-tested principles of good governance theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study investigates the implication of community engagement in the decision-making processes in South African local municipality governance system. The main concern of having a community participation in decision making has been receiving serious consideration across Africa and South Africa especially, from both civil society and government. Debatably governments in several parts of the world today have initiated different or rather a diverse look at the requisite for public participation in decision-making processes in local municipalities. This study focused on the challenges and the extent to which a community can be involved in the decision making practices in a Local Municipality leadership structure, while trying to access socio-economic and political development. Findings in this study revealed that in most Local Municipality community; participation in decisionmaking has not been effectively been. Using participatory theory there is a clear understanding of the relevance of putting the community members into consideration in decision making at local municipality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]