By Alicia Mmashakana
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has called for a detailed municipality-by-municipality report to enable proper analysis and oversight of the District Development Model (DDM).
Committee members raised concerns about the slow progress and lack of clarity in implementing the District Development Model (DDM), six years after its launch by the President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2019.
The department briefed the committee on pilot evaluations in eThekwini, OR Tambo (Eastern Cape), and Waterberg (Limpopo), but members felt the presentation lacked depth.
They called for a detailed, municipality-by-municipality breakdown to better assess implementation milestones and achievements.
Despite being presented as a national model, only pilot sites have received focused attention.
Committee Chairperson Zweli Mkhize pointed to confusion around the term “pilot” and the lack of clarity on how these sites differ from others already working within the DDM framework.
“If the DDM is a national model,
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