📖 The Pendulum. Districts and Regions.

The birth of the new South Africa in 1994 triggered a lot of change and resulting in restructuring processes.As in many countries decentralization was imperative in order to address, among other issues, the undemocratic governance practices and inequalities of the former apartheid educational system.This book discusses the establishment of districts and circuits in Mpumalanga as nodes of service delivery, immediately after the first democratic elections.It also focuses of the movement in the opposite direction, namely the demise of districts in 2001 and the birth of regions.