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The pandemic has been a great revealer in many ways as it has stripped bare the thin veneer hiding many structural challenges facing local governments across the country. As the government closest to the people, municipalities have had to deal with exacerbated socio-economic problems during a worsening climate crisis while trying to deliver their usual wide range of services. It has been a difficult juggling act to say the least.

As Mahatma Gandhi once remarked,