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The management of community development projects in Mafunze and Inadi Tribal authorities Phoswa, Octavia Heavy-Girl Duduzile Wallis, Malcolm Alan Henworth Rural development projects--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg Community development--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Technology: Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2013. This thesis explores the management of community development projects in Mafunze and Inadi Tribal authorities. These are rural areas situated on the Westside of Pietermaritzburg along Bulwer Road. The community development projects were developed as means for rural development after the apartheid regime. When the African National Congress came into power after the first democratic elections in 1994, they came up with a working policy document which was the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). Most of the community development projects were executed as per principles of the RDP. The management of these projects involved a number of stakeholders as dealt with extensively in the study. The research was a case study analysis which aimed to determine the extent to which socio- economic upliftment is achieved through community development projects and their management thereof. The sample was drawn from a population of eleven community projects. Project committee members were interviewed in their mother language as most of the committee members would not understand English. The study concentrated on the views and opinions of the stakeholders in the management of community projects. The responses were translated from IsiZulu to English while other comments were captured in IsiZulu then translated into English. The ethical conduct and confidentiality was highly emphasized and kept as such as project communities feared that they may be victimised. The study revealed that total commitment of the community in development issues is vital. This called for active participation in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also revealed that most projects collapsed after being handed over to the community; further, the study did reveal that there was more room for improvement in terms of skills exchange programmes with the international community. M 2013-06-05T06:29:22Z 2014-02-11T12:32:58Z 2013-06-05 Thesis 445206 http://hdl.handle.net/10321/859 https://doi.org/10.51415/10321/859 en 136 p application/pdf