SA may reduce the number of provinces

Mluleki Mrwebi

30 June 2012

The Freedom Front Plus has described the ANC’s plan to reduce South Africa’s nine provinces to six as an attempt to take the Western Cape out of the hands of the opposition.

Media reports suggest that the ANC’s legislature and governance commissions proposed the provincial changes at the ruling party’s policy conference in Midrand.

FF Plus chief whip Corné Mulder says this will in no way improve service delivery in the provinces.

He also said that having many provinces is not the problem, but South Africa does not have efficient service delivery plan.

  

He added that cutting the provinces will not make any difference in the problems that the country is facing at the moment.