Mechanisms for facilitating trust and sense of belonging as aspects of social cohesion in local government: Exploratory case studies of the City of Cape Town and the City of Ekurhuleni
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
More than twenty-five years after the end of the apartheid system of government and its
statutory segregation, South African communities continue to reflect high levels of racial and
social divisions. The prevalence of these issues has reinforced an environment characterised
by high levels of inequality, weak social cohesion, exclusion and segregation emanating from
an untransformed and unjust spatial legacy. To respond to these challenges, municipalities as
the sphere of government closest to communities are expected, among other things, to facilitate
trust and a sense of belonging in order to realise a cohesive society.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Social cohesion, Trust, Apartheid, Race, Integrated Development Plans (IDPs), City of Cape Town and City of Ekurhuleni