The service delivery campaign seeks to mobilise rural communities virtually and eventually physically to propel these rural communities to, while providing answers, ask pertinent questions like:
- Why are funds earmarked for service delivery continue to be diverted for salaries of municipal executives?
- What are the alternatives to service delivery provision?
- How can rural communities ensure consequence management and how can they fight corruption while naming and shaming corrupt municipal personnel and private sector colluders?
KEISKAMMAHOEK
Until mid-2008, BRC remained committed to attempting to support the official ADM-led development process. But after the municipality adopted a very weak development plan against the advice of BRC, it decided to contrive and pursue a ‘plan b’. The alternative process prioritises local institution building and economic planning, and insists on a close link between planning and implementation. In 2008, BRC was able to raise money to initiate economic planning in northern Keiskammahoek (Gxulu and Mnyameni) in close collaboration with the village development committees, and began the process of implementing some of the planned projects in 2009, without municipal involvement.
Work in Keiskammahoek currently includes two cooperative agricultural projects and environmental work (the clearing of alien invasive species).