Abstract:

Developing countries are now actively promoting the participation of local people in the development process, arguing that the persistence of underdevelopment of rural communities is explicitly caused by over dependence on centrally designed development packages. Many Third World governments maintain that colonialism established a national economic order that has ensured that development of the rural areas is directly dependent on prior development of the urban centres or metropolis. This has tended to lead to urban bias with the expectation that the benefits of the development of the urban centres will trickle down to the rural communities. Thus, development of local communities must be preceded by the development of towns and cities. In this view, development is a condition which has to be brought to and for some, by others who are presumably more enlightened than the recipients hence development professionals prescribe development interventions which are not designed and owned by local people .In South Africa underdevelopment is not only  colonial and historical but its also because of poor governance by the Corrupt Black Ruling Class(CBRC) after independence from  the  apartheid regime.