International NGO Journal

  • Abbreviation: Int. NGOJ
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8225
  • DOI: 10.5897/INGOJ
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 264

Full Length Research Paper

Relationship between municipal performance (service delivery) and communities’ rejection/acceptance of demarcations

Luvuyo Ntombana
  • Luvuyo Ntombana
  • Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
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Thandeka Khowa
  • Thandeka Khowa
  • Department of Sociology and Human Settlements, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
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  •  Received: 28 June 2020
  •  Accepted: 06 July 2020
  •  Published: 31 August 2020

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