Decentralising police will solve the problem of centralised rot infesting every police department. Local departments will be able to equip themselves with the resources and strategies needed to solve their particular issues.
The DA’s preoccupation with meritocracy, therefore, also stands uneasily alongside its supposed commitment to federalism.
This article was first published by Daily Friend on 8 February 2024 The municipal and provincial governments of Cape Town and the Western Cape, and the
That our subcentral governments have deferred (too much) to the central government is not a question of legality, but one of political will and obsequity.
Incompetence and corruption and ineptitude at the centre need not mean collapse everywhere. Federalism and decentralisation are imperative to the managing of risk.
30 years into our democratic dispensation, it has become abundantly clear that the time of big government has come to an end.
Martin van Staden was featured in the Cape Argus on the FMF’s calls for more substantive federal decentralisation.
Martin van Staden was featured in The Star on the potential of South African provinces conducting their own foreign policy.
Martin van Staden was featured on Pretoria FM on the possibilities of provinces handling their own foreign affairs.
Martin van Staden was featured in Maroela Media on how South African provinces can legally conduct their own foreign affairs.
