Assessment of Evolution in Provincial Decentralization

The first two decades • Fairly quickly, decentralization was found to be wanting • Provincial assemblies had little public support ● • Provincial governance came to be seen as poor And came under attack from national government • • • • In 1983, national government gave itself the power to suspend provincial governments for non- performance. By 1995, all but five suspended at least once. By mid-80s, national leaders started talking about abolishing the provincial government system. By early-90s, 2 committees recommended this. In 1993, Cabinet (NEC) endorsed this, and CLRC tasked with coming up with an alternative.

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