ABSTRACT
The main focus of Chapter 5 lies in elaborating upon three state-induced ways of fostering community-state relations and public participation, namely: the ward committee system, established by local government; the Community Development Worker Programme, monitored by provincial government; and the African Peer Review Mechanism, facilitated by provincial government. The argument is that the integration and coordination of public participation in these (transnational) governance arrangements is conflictive, owing to divergent interests and contested urban agendas which are in turn both geographically specific as well as being entrenched in former apartheid divisions.
