Today our guest is Roland Hewood from the Pretoria University Political Sciences Department

• With millions of South Africans having not turned up to vote for leaders of their choice in the local government elections, there is likely to be coalition governments at local level.
• Senior political journalist at The Citizen Brian Sokutu writers that The problem with coalition governments is that they are not based on deliverables promised to voters, but politics which not what people voted for.
• He says what makes coalition governments unstable are the compromises, the long time it takes to make decisions and party leaders taking time to cement strong relationships.
• Unhappiness with the quality of service has led to many not voting as in most municipalities, to deliver on the simplest much-needed services officials find it hard to do what has to be done without there being a tender.
• Sokutu says The National Development Plan is one of the dynamic documents on priorities to be addressed in SA but nothing is happening with it because we are only good at policy formulation and not implementation.