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    The role of community participation in community development: the case of Jozini Local Municipality (1994-2014)
    (University of Zululand, 2020) Fakude, Philangenkosi Givenson
    The purpose of this research was to investigate the role and importance of community participation in community development processes so as to develop new initiatives capable of supporting most deprived wards and local municipalities. The problem of the study was derived from the protests of people complaining about poor service delivery in the selected local municipality. Community Participation was seen as one solution to overcoming the problem of sustainability of community development projects. The study proposed that poor community participation results to loss of trust and poor decision making on behalf of citizens. Literature review was utilised to support the empirical research and to check compliance of Jozini Local Municipality in the existing type of participation. Qualitative research method was adopted for data collection from 20 purposively selected participants across all ward committee members, local municipal officials, and community participants to provide information. Critical issues were found and analyzed. Data analysis shows that Jozini Local Municipality is practicing the type of participation that is generally used by almost all municipalities in South Africa. Research findings shows that decision makers fail to consider the role of community participation in achieving the project sustainability because without the people’s participation, projects cannot be maintained for long-term and the objective cannot be achieved. Also, motivation strategy plays an important role to improve participation in the ward level and motivate people who are participating in the community development.