More than eight months after last year’s local government elections, there is no slight of improvement in the provision of basic service delivery in the broke Ditsobotla municipality.

When locals of Lichtenburg, North West, cast their votes in the November local elections, they did so in the midst of town plagued by untarred roads, gigantic potholes, power cuts, lack of reliable water supply and heaps of uncollected rubbish on every street corner in the township...