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Former L\u00fcderitz mayor Phil Balhao describes the time he served as an opposition councillor for the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) and as mayor as a learning curve and a clash of ideologies.<\/em><\/p>\n Balhao says ideological differences in developmental initiatives caused delays in the implementation of projects until there was sufficient buy-in from fellow councillors, administrative staff and line ministries.<\/p>\n “In the beginning you did not always get their support, and things would take time. But…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Former L\u00fcderitz mayor Phil Balhao describes the time he served as an opposition councillor for the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) and as mayor as a learning curve and a clash of ideologies. Balhao says ideological differences in developmental initiatives caused delays in the implementation of projects until there was sufficient buy-in from fellow councillors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8208,14451,4706,724,257,8089,7294,254],"class_list":["post-213054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lessons","tag-mayors","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-office","tag-share","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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