Importantly, both the Constitution (1996) and the White paper on Local government (1998) gave birth to developmental model to local government. According to Oldfield (2002), developmental local government was constitutionalised in order to reverse the legacy of underdevelopment of the majority of the population).The developmental local government (DLG) was viewed as an ambitious vision for local government set out in the Constitution (Pieterse et al (2008). Pieterse et al (2008: 2) define DLG as the custodian of the public interventions necessary to ensure the realisation of social and economic development, while at the same time section 24(b) of the Constitution insisted that development must also be ‘ecologically sustainable’. According to de Visser (2005: 258)