Regional services councils: a preliminary evaluation

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Abstract
Until the late‐1980s South Africa's cities had, generally speaking, little experience of either metropolitan government, administration or service provision. The introduction of Regional Services Councils, from 1987 onwards, was designed in part to introduce such metropolitan or regional structures. Considerable controversy surrounded their introduction, to the extent that their introduction was delayed During this process their form and structure was also shaped by wider political issues, especially the widespread violence in South Africa's black townships in the mid‐tolate‐1980s. Since their introduction RSCs have probably succeeded in allaying much of the criticism levelled at them. However, issues around the apartheid local authority structure which underpins them remains an important source of criticism against RSCs.

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