JOHANNESBURG - While South Africans demand better service delivery, it seems councillors have their own problems.
The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department says over 300 councillors in KwaZulu-Natal can't read or write.
Political analyst, Tessa Dooms says the country's poor education system is to blame.
Dooms said, "so how do we end up with the representatives that we have in our current political climate, communities will tell you often that it's only one two ways that you end up with your public representatives at ward level."
"One is that parties impose people and in that case you have to ask parties to be accountable for empowering people that they are going to put into the political system."
"Parties have not done great jobs at all of doing even political education, never mind empowering people with the skills to govern and so from our MPs to our MPLs, to our ward councillors where parties have been dominant in their ability to tell ward councillors what to do, to select them and to give them political consequences, they've not put in the same amount of effort into training them on the skills of governance."